(Posted 21st April 2025)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
“Culling isn’t an option” Why I spent 32 bone-jarring hours in a truck full of elephants heading for Angola |
| Jim Tan, Discover Wildlife, April 18, 2025 |
| It’s August 2024 and the elephants are destined for a new life north of the border. Okonjati’s elephant population has grown to double what the land can sustain, a situation exacerbated by six years of drought, and several family groups need to be relocated. Finding a new home for the herd has proved difficult. In much of the species’ range, space for elephants has been squeezed to the limit, and burgeoning human and elephant populations increasingly come into conflict. |
| Read more (6 min) |
How Elephants Dig Wells That Other Animals Depend On |
| Annette Uy, Discover Wild Science, April 18, 2025 |
| Imagine a parched African savannah, the earth cracked and dry, the grass brittle beneath sweltering sun—yet, amidst this harshness, a family of elephants arrives. With powerful trunks and relentless determination, they begin to dig. What unfolds is not just a struggle to survive, but an extraordinary act of environmental engineering. The holes they create become life-saving wells, attracting a bustling crowd of desperate animals. |
| Read more (10 min) |
