Saving Elephants Or Serving Propaganda? Tsavo National Park And Poaching

     A recent article about elephants in Tsavo National Park, Kenya, was an uncritical look at one organization's alleged success. The organization has embarked on a path that is somewhat military without being military, and that sounds good and convincing on paper. 

      There are huge, unaddressed problems facing the elephants of Tsavo and elsewhere. This includes habitat loss and human encroachment. Human encroachment includes the use of land for cattle and agriculture, which has significant adverse impacts on elephants, buffalo and other species. Anti poaching efforts attract contributions, even if these efforts are ineffective or self serving. This allows the other enormous threats to elephants and other wildlife to continue to be ignored by contribution seeking organizations.