A Botswana village fights to exist alongside 130,000 African elephants

 

(Posted 11th November 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

Lauren Ulrich, Planet Forward (U.S.), November 4, 2025
In the dry fields of Sankoyo, a village of less than 200 people where Land Cruisers speed by on their way to the Okavango Delta’s hippo-dotted lagoons, Thekiso Bayei, a petite mother of five, is in a battle against a 15,000-pound herbivore. She says she saw it yesterday, waiting just outside her fence. “We used to harvest crops to feed our children,” Thekiso said, holding a handful of seeds. She’s not planting today, but she still likes to hold them.
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