Home, Home On The Range

This article reminds me of a old song that I love, Home on the Range.  I thought of this song mainly because of the second part of the chorus. Elephants roam where they were meant to roam, and the "deer and the antelope" (all of the other animals) are happy where they are. 

Home, home on the range

Where the deer and the antelope play

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day  

Also, going back to elephant behaviors, it is scientifically proven that elephants will act in a "rogue" manner only if they are traumatized. 

Elephants (or their ancestors the Mammoth) have been around much longer than we humans have.  Don't you think that they've already marked their territory?

Elephants aren't encroaching on us; we're encroaching on them!

A male elephant is lowered onto a truck by the Kenyan Wildlife Service after being sedated on the edge of the Ol Pejeta conservancy in central Kenya on June 21, 2013. Nine 'rogue' elephants that have been destroying crops in the area will be translocated from the conservancy to the larger Kora National Reserve in order to ease the human-wildlife conflict over land. (PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images)

"Wildlife officials are in the process of translocating 15 "rogue" elephants between protected breeding grounds in Kenya this week.

The animals are being moved from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy to Meru National Park after "terrorizing residents," damaging crops and destroying fences in the area, according to a report from The Star, a Kenyan newspaper. An official with the park said the relocation process is normal and carried out whenever populations surge to help control human-wildlife conflicts.

Unfortunately, elephants and their tusks are still prime targets for poachers, and more than 40,000 are killed every year, according to the Elephant Advocacy League. Fences and national park designations do little to deter heavily armed raiders looking to profit off ivory that can sell for more than $1,300 a pound overseas. "

~Huff Post GREEN

June 22, 2013

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