Africa: The Last Great Bulls – Inside Botswana’s Silent Struggle Over Its Elephants

Cape Town — When Dr Mike Chase banks the small survey plane over northern Botswana’s mopane woodlands, he can see the country’s wildlife story written in the dust below. Carcasses — some months old, others more recent — lie scattered along ancient elephant paths, mute evidence of drought, hunting and poaching. Farther ahead, the shadows of living elephants stretch across the floodplains of the Chobe.

But the aerial view tells a different story — one that challenges years of political…