On the lush, rolling savannas that link northern Tanzania to Amboseli National Park in Kenya, foraging elephants move back and forth on a sloping landscape in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro.
The animals are accustomed to open-sided 4x4s full of tourists on the Kenyan side and seem to sense no danger from the visitors pointing phones.
At least two were so-called super tuskers, with tusks so long that they swept the ground.
There hasn’t been a similar cluster of rapid killings in the area since the mid-1990s.
Conservationists say it points to a breakdown of a tacit agreement between the countries that banned hunting in the border zone.
Persons:
hasn’t
Organizations:
Kenyan
Locations:
Tanzania, Kenya, Amboseli