Word: woodley
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...Bill Woodley killed his first elephant at 16. By 19 he had shot 150 tuskers and lived as a professional ivory hunter. Today, at 60, he is the elephant's staunchest protector, leading the desperate war against poachers in Kenya's Tsavo National Park. "They say once an elephant hunter, always an elephant hunter," says Woodley. "But I've spent the past 41 years hunting poachers." The difference, he observes wryly, is that "poachers shoot back...
...Tsavo, using arrows tipped with poison. Now Somali gangs, including many former soldiers, spray whole families of elephants with automatic-weapon fire. Not all Tsavo's poachers have been outsiders to the park. Some who are paid to protect the elephants -- wardens and rangers -- are also suspect. The evidence: Woodley and others have extracted .303-cal. bullets from carcasses. "The only people who use .303s are the rangers," he says. Numerous carcasses have been found near the rangers' headquarters. And when the park's patrol plane is grounded for inspection, the poachers quickly appear. Someone has tipped them off. Corruption...
...Kenya is striking back. In his breast pocket, Woodley has an envelope stuffed with 30,000 Kenyan shillings ($1,428) -- money for informants. The antipoaching units are exchanging their World War I bolt-action rifles for automatic assault weapons. Within the past year the APUs have killed 18 poachers under a shoot-to-kill order. Dozens of senior wildlife-department personnel have been interrogated, and some have been relieved of their duties. These measures seem to be working. In the past month not one fresh carcass has been found. "Everyone is keen as mustard," says Woodley, beaming...
...upcoming book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (New American Library; $18.95), written with Richard Woodley, reveals the full extent of his dangerous voyage into the underworld. Pistone lived with mobsters, gained their trust and came close to being initiated as a wise guy -- a "made" Mafioso. He helped arrange business deals between crime families in different parts of the country and was the subject of three Mob-style tribunals, or "sit-downs," any of which could have resulted in a contract on his life. "In the Mafia, it's always someone you know real well who kills...
...Woodley, who'll miss dear Brent Martin...