To cosset or to cull?

摘要

THE elephant had been snared in the thick forest spilling down the slopes of Mount Kenya. She had struggled to break free, flattening vegetation, but the snare had cut deep. She died of thirst, in agony, one of seven being monitored with radio collars by Save the Elephants, a Kenya-based conservation group. Three of the other collared animals have also been killed in the past few months, their faces hacked off to get at the tusks.