Botswana threatens to send elephants to Germany

[TheFrogLady]

Yes, unfortunately ... that is spot on.

Compared to rhinos or hippos and tapirs elephants are really at the lesser end of the stick, especially when this concerns the African Savannah elephant. African forest elephants are really in dire straits across major parts of their rainforest habitats and given the large range across southern and S.E. Asia Asiatic elephants are also very much a concern, in parts with the islands populations on Sumatera and Kalimantan/Sabah-Malaysia critically endangered so.

Indeed. Even giraffes are undergoing what is referred to as a “silent extinction”, which saddens me because I’ve loved these animals since I was a child.