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Wild life

Why we should listen to elephants

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

Laikipia, Kenya

 

‘An elephant has fallen over,’ said the man running up to me. My first thought was that poachers had killed the animal for its tusks. ‘Has it been shot?’ The man shrugged. ‘He was eating leaves, then he just fell over.’ As Claire and I made our way to the place, I was worried.

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