Human Elephant Conflict
We need to talk about the elephant in the room… Between 1976 and 2014, Tanzania’s elephant population collapsed from a now almost unimaginable 316,000 to just 43,500. Thanks to improved conservation and anti-poaching efforts, the population now stands at around 60,000, but as numbers rise, so does Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC). Elephants are driven by an…