The poachers or ivory poachers are a group of characters who served as the main-antagonists of Kilimanjaro Safaris, the spiritual successor to the Jungle Cruise.
Description[]
The poachers are a group of criminal hunters who operated in the Port of Harambe during the late 20th/early 21st century. The poachers made profit by killing protected African elephants in-order to illegally sell their ivory.
History[]
Background[]
Around the 1990s/2000s, the poachers were known to break into the Harambe Wildlife Reserve to kill animals for profit. Eventually, they killed the reserve's star elephant Big Red and kidnapped her baby Little Red. The poachers were subsequently hunted down by the combined efforts of reserve warden Wilson Matua and the SIMBA-1 safari jeep of Kilimanjaro Safaris.
Development history[]
The poachers were the original main-antagonists of Kilimanjaro Safaris. They were unseen characters who killed the elephant Big Red and made off with her baby Little Red before being thwarted by the guests. The poachers storyline was infused to create a moral to the attraction but removed due to the imagery of animal mutilation and murder within an attraction featuring live animals.
Appearances[]
Harambe Market[]
There are poasters warning about harsh penalties for ivory poaching.[1]
Kilimanjaro Safaris[]
Posters reference the poachers within the queue for Kilimanjaro Safaris.[2]
Gallery[]
