Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the amount of carbon that forests are able to store.
When the elephant arrived in the night, on the hunt for sugarcane, Uthorn Kanthong was waiting for him.
Culling, hunting and quick-fix solutions dominate policy talk, but without reliable national figures on human-elephant conflict, South Africa risks sacrificing both elephants and communities to politics and profit.