![]() ![]() They need our focus and they need our commitment to stop the killing. They need more than our prayers.more than our tears.more than our anger. Hands gripping the bones I pay tribute to their magnificence, bearing witness to herds that once were. Hands on the bones, I try to feel the life of these three ton animals that once roamed and shaped this great landscape. Studies have shown that there is no evidence to support the existence of an elephant graveyard, but the idea of its existence persists and perhaps for good. Hands in the soil I kneel amidst the bones in prayer. The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism wishes to inform members of the public that, following the mysterious deaths of elephants in the areas around Seronga since March 2020, to date, 275 elephant carcasses have been verified against the 356 reported cases. The wind blows them together, in prayer for the elephants. Their leaves look like two hands praying. The mopani trees surround this graveyard. The crocodiles, hippos, impala, nyla, baboons and other wildlife eat, drink, run, jump, play, fight and live, simply live.īut the elephant bones lay silent…….still…….without life. There are elephant graveyards across Africa. There are piles of them in mounds littered across the land.Ģ5,000 elephant were killed last year. The elephant bones the length of a broom and thickness of a rugby players' thigh. ![]() Stark white bones-that is all that is left.Īn elephant skull is the size of an arm chair. Stark white bones spread across the landscape. The elephant bones the length of a broom and thickness of a rugby players thigh. Stark white bones juxtaposed against green vegetation. An elephant skull is the size of an arm chair. Local forestry officials, powerless to stop the elephant, call in one of India’s last licensed elephant hunters and issue a warrant for the rogue’s destruction. It's not like the graveyards you and I know. On India’s northeast frontier, a killer elephant is on the rampage, stalking Assam’s paddy fields and murdering dozens of farmers. Have you ever visited an elephant graveyard? Kathleen was a senior staff member of African Wildlife Foundation for 11 years, serving as Vice President for East and Southern Africa and later Senior Conservation Advisor. Kathleen Fitzgerald has over 25 years of experience in integrated large landscape conservation in Africa and North America. ![]()
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