Former football star, Patrick Mboma takes up new challenge

After the football fields, former Cameroon international, Patrick Mboma embarks on a new challenge: the defense of elephants in forest in the Central African region.

He began Thursday in Gabon, a tour that will continue in Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the pachyderms are threatened with extinction.

"In my home, Cameroon in Boubandjida Park, in less than two years, four hundred elephants were killed in one month. Revealed the former star of the indomitable Lions.

Because of this macabre, Patrick Mboma did not hesitate when consulted to become the Ambassador of good will to fight against the massacre of elephants in Central Africa.

The situation in the region is serious. Gabon for example lost 11,000 elephants last ten years according to the worldwide Fund for nature. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 7 000 elephants against 100,000 just twenty years ago. In Congo-Brazzaville, poachers also outwit the vigilance.

Patrick Mboma crisscrosses the sub-region to bring his message to poachers and their accomplices: 'stop your desires now, stop your efforts in this crime because we will fight for biodiversity '. After this tour, Patrick Mboma wants to organize a weekend for the protection of African elephants.