Once upon a time, and not so long ago either, a million elephants roamed Earth. Last year, 25,000 elephants were slaughtered for their ivory, according to the harrowing — and important — National Geographic documentary, made for PBS, Battle for the Elephants.
All across Africa, elephant populations have crashed — and in less time than the original Big Brother has been on the air. The carnage is on a horrific scale. It’s not just the well-trodden tourist parks of East Africa, either, but inside the park boundaries of remote pristine wildlife areas in less travelled countries like Cameroon, Gabon, Chad, Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, where it was assumed elephants and other wild animals might live out their lives in peace, unnoticed and unmolested