GUARDIAN  |  Environment

Africa’s great elephant divide: countries struggle with too many elephants – or too few

非洲的大象分野:部分国家面临大象过多,部分国家则大象稀少

A herd of elephants drinks in front of a safari lodge in Hwange national park, Zimbabwe, from a pool originally created for guests.

A herd of elephants drinks in front of a safari lodge in Hwange national park, Zimbabwe, from a pool originally created for guests.

2026-01-15  1421  晦涩
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Fifty years ago, life for elephants in this part of Africa was very different. In the early 1970s, an English ecologist called Dr Murray Watson crisscrossed the skies of Sudan in a bush plane to measure wildlife populations. While Watson’s methodology wasn’t as reliable as modern counts, he estimated there were about 133,500 elephants in what is now South Sudan.

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