ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月12日 06時29分

elephant relocation # II, ol pejeta conservancy, northern kenya-from the series 'with butterflies and warriors’ by David Chancellor @chancellordavid

Rangers relocate a problem elephant from Ol Pejeta Conservancy, northern Kenya, to Meru National Park.

Elephant become classed as ‘problem animals’ when they continually break fences and risk coming in to contact with local people surrounding conservancies. The elephants learn very quickly that ivory does not conduct electricity, electric fences therefore become no defence against elephant who are set on raiding crops. It’s hoped that relocating them to areas of less human settlement will mitigate any future potential incidents of human wildlife conflict.
As Peter Beard wrote in ‘The End of the Game’ (1965) 'The elephant, with it’s great stride, was designed to break paths for other game: with its trunk to uproot trees, aiding fertilisation and irrigation: and with its huge feet in swamps or its trunk in sand, to leave water holes for small fish and fowl'. He also observed 'as boundaries are declared with walls and ditches, and cement suffocates the land, the great herds of the past become concentrated in new and strange habitats. Densities rise, the habitats are diminished, and the land itself begins to die. Imbalance is compounded. To build a city where once there stretched open plain is not to solve a problem, but to create a more complex one'. As recent events in the region have shown, the future of wildlife in northern Kenya now more than ever will require the support and engagement of local communities, allowing it's safe migration along centuries old routes, and across tribal lands, if it is to survive as nature designed and not as man demands.

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