The Elephants Return
Lee on Feb 07 2008 at 5:37 am | Filed under: Around the Web
photo: Vearl Brown
Uganda’s elephants have made a marvelous comeback, after having been nearly wiped out for their ivory, as part of Idi Amin’s many efforts to systematically plunder his country into ruin. It’s estimated there were once 30,000 elephants in Uganda before Amin came to power. By the time the Tanzanian army liberated the country from his despotic rule in 1979, their numbers had dwindled to a mere 2,000. Now, through conservation efforts, the long-lived slow-multiplying giants have increased to a population of 5,000.
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