Voice of America: In Uganda, Not Everyone Loves an Elephant Nov 28th 2012, 22:55 Voice of America | Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries | | In Uganda, Not Everyone Loves an Elephant Nov 28th 2012, 20:56 They come by night, stripping saplings, flattening rice paddies, uprooting whole fields of corn. Voracious and practically unstoppable, they lay farmers' livelihoods to waste. But here in Western Uganda, where the most destructive animals aren't locusts or crows, but highly protected elephants, conventional pest control is not an option. "Just two months ago elephants ripped up an acre of my sorghum crop and [my] two children had to go hungry," says Latib Kalema, whose ... | | | | |
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