Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: elephants' desperate hunt for water

Hwange, Zimbabwe (AFP) Dec 21, 2023

Storm clouds are finally gathering over Zimbabwe's biggest animal reserve, but it has come too late for more than 110 elephants that have died in a searing, extended drought. There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off the rotting corpses before poachers find them. With the black clouds in recent days promising life-sa