Crazed Elephant Portrait (Loxodonta africana)

Moremi Game Reserve

Okavango Delta

Botswana

Southern Africa

 

Young elephant mock charging the land rover. He faked the charge at least four times, before running off to join the rest of the herd. I cropped the image to show his facial expression.

 

Botswana has the largest elephant population on the continent due to tight protection and civil unrest in neighbouring countries. The relative difficulty in accessing the wildlife areas coupled with the military threat to poachers has allowed the elephant population in Botswana to grow.

 

The Okavango Delta also sees high concentrations of elephants due to the permanent water source.

 

There have been incidents of poaching in Botswana, mainly rhino, but the government decided to set up a military task force in the fight against the scourge. Poachers were ruthlessly dealt with and the task force became a full-time anti-poaching unit.

 

The Linyanti area of Botswana was once a hunting concession but in the past 10 years, with only photographic tourism being offered, the elephants are starting to return en masse to the region and Linyanti today is being touted as equal to Chobe when it comes to elephant experience. – Wikipedia

 

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