the latest grim news about the ongoing slaughter of africa’s elephants
and Andrew Revkin’s blog about it, with a kind appreciation of my 2010 Vanity Fair piece, “Agony and Ivory”
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/a-searing-look-at-ties-between-africas-wars-and-the-ivory-trade/
#66: Agony and Ivory
By Alex Shoumatoff, Photograph by Guillaume Bonn
RANGE LIFE: A herd of elephants, photographed in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. With China’s growing appetite for ivory, poaching is on the rise all over Africa.
Another carcass has been found. On the Kuku Group Ranch, one of the sectors allotted to the once nomadic Maasai that surround Amboseli National …Read More