Pack Up Your Trunks ; or How 400 African Elephants Are On the Move in a Modern-Day Ark

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SOMETIMES conservation can be too effective. When you're dealing with African elephants, with only a limited amount of space and food, any overpopulation can be catastrophic.

In the old days, Africa's elephants had the freedom of the continent and could roam hundreds of miles in search of food. Now, they are cramped into tiny slivers of wilderness protected from the burgeoning human population.

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Pack Up Your Trunks ; or How 400 African Elephants Are On the Move in a Modern-Day Ark

But the protection afforded these animals can cause its own problems.

In Kenya's Shimba Hills National Reserve, the elephant population has risen unchecked and some 600 animals is more than the 74 square- mile reserve ca...

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