Word: elephantitis
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Although world leaders and the media rally to protect the endangered elephant from poachers and ivory traders, speakers at an Institute of Politics forum said last night, the destruction is in part a natural outgrowth of urban expansion and farmers' efforts to defend their land.
A panel of four conservationists mediated by Richard D. Estes, associate in mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, discussed the plight of the African elephant and debated how best to combat its decline.
The African elephant population had declined from 1.3 million to 625,000 over the last decade. The most publicized cause of the depletion has been poaching, Estes said, and African governments have taken steps to improve enforcement of anti-poaching laws.
"The majority of people want to see elephant shooting stopped," Estes said.
At the end the picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally...