(Posted 08th June 2026)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Chali Mulenga, El País (Spain), June 6, 2026 |
| Veronica Akabondo had worked from dawn to dusk for months on her farm in southern Zambia and was confident she would have a plentiful maize harvest. But one morning she woke up and found it all gone. The culprit? A herd of hungry elephants. “They came and ate the maize the whole night,” Akabondo says, distraught, standing in the trampled remains of her field. “They finished everything. Even the pumpkins I had planted in the same field were not spared,” adds the 60-year-old woman. |
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