Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Wild life | 21 April 2016

People would then start ranching elephants instead of poaching them — and you could feed half a million people with the elephant meat currently going to waste

issue 23 April 2016
 

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I sip my Tusker beer on the veranda, staring at the elephant. He’s not the elephant in the room. He’s the elephant on what should be my croquet lawn. I thought he might go away, but he hasn’t. Instead he’s brought his friends — more and more of them as time goes by.
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