China’s efforts to save its wandering elephants are laudable, but let's not forget its bloody conflicts with the giants
- Written by Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
Wild elephants are awe-inspiring — even if they’re trying to kill you, as I discovered in 2004.
At the time I was studying how poachers and loggers threaten native mammals in Africa’s Congo Basin. I was sneaking up on a herd of forest elephants when they suddenly charged, rushing at me like enraged, out-of-control bulldozers....
