Despite the recovery of some elephant populations after the ivory-ban in 1989, the total number of elephants across the continent is actually half what it was estimated to have been 40 years ago.
“There is a mystery behind that masked gray visage, an ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome an enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”
– Peter Matthiessen on elephants from “The Tree Where Man Was Born”