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.

The Delicate and Mighty


13 Aug 2008
12:29 PM EDT
By Paul

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Running Wild in the Heartlands


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“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”


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