The elephants' farewell in Botswana -Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
May 2, 2010
from
Paul Buchheit,
April Buchheit,
Amit Patel,
ieruo,
Antoine Bertier,
Robert Felty,
Clare Dibble,
YANNIS ΤΑ ΚΑΛΥΤΕΡΑ,
Wulffy,
and
Vishy
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"Eating for 14 hours at a stretch, an elephant consumes 325 kilograms of food a day. When leaves and fruit fail to fill that giant stomach, it tears off whole branches and eats the wood. Its tusks gouge so much bark from around the stems of full-grown trees that they turn into whitened skeletons and eventually fall at dizzy angles. Trees that survive are pushed sideways to the ground so that their roots can be munched.
Now numbering one for every 14 human inhabitants, the relentless roaming of Botswana’s 120,000 elephants is driving villagers from the land by indiscriminately destroying their crops. Even the staunchest conservationists now concede that some significant culling is necessary."
- bob
Elephants are evil. But they're cute, so we protect them.
- Amit Patel
Can't they just export the elephants to other countries that need them?
- Gabe