Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: Elephants' desperate hunt for water
A game ranger removes a tusk from a decomposed elephant which died of drought in Hwange National Park in Hwange, Northern Zimbabwe on December 16, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
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.
