Think long and hard about endangered wildlife

It is not just conservationists who are decrying the sustained threat to the survival of Africa’s endangered elephants. It is an entire continent that knows we, just like our ancestors have co-existed peacefully with our wildlife for generations beyond count. Each species has kept a respectful distance, allowing the animals’ habitat to be the crowd-puller it is today.

That poachers’ bullets are feeding a burgeoning black-market trade of ivory in cyberspace is proving a bitter pill to swallow, especially as the very same animals are the attraction that is putting food on many of our tables, in the form of tourism revenues.