#wildlife-tracking

#wildlife-tracking

Save the Elephants said he was instrumental in exposing the ivory poaching crisis and documenting the destruction of over half of Africa's elephants in a single decade, leading up to a crucial intergovernmental decision to ban the international trade in ivory in 1989. Whether sitting quietly among elephants, poring over maps of their movements, or circling above a herd in his beloved aircraft, that glint in his eye was there, the group's CEO Frank Pope said.

It was about 9.30 or 10 on a dark, late November night; Molly Laird was driving her pink Mini home along country lanes to her Warwickshire cottage. Suddenly, the headlights' beam picked up an animal sitting in the road. I thought it was a deer at first, Molly tells me. But when it moved, its tail wasn't right, and it was hopping.