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☆ A Ban on Elephant Hunting Has Collapsed. Or Maybe It Never Existed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Shola Lawal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

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.

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☆ See photos from the Apollo era like never before
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Since then, Saunders has applied his technique to 400 images from the Apollo program. His book of images, “Apollo Remastered,” was published in September. During his 10,000 hours of working on Apollo images, Saunders set himself another task: solving the case of the missing lunar golf ball. Defying gravityAstronaut Alan Shepard served as the commander of NASA's Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. The late NASA astronaut, known for his zest for life, smuggled a custom 6-iron clubhead and some golf balls to the moon during Apollo 14.

☆ Last of the ‘Super Tuskers’: Saving Kenya’s majestic megafauna
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Daryl Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

He’s a conservation officer and pilot for Tsavo Trust, an organization dedicated to protecting the wildlife in the Tsavo Conservation Area (TCA) – in particular, the Super Tuskers. “The Tsavo ecosystem holds arguably the largest number of big tuskers in Africa,” says Kyalo. The magnificent "Super Tuskers" of Tsavo National Park are an increasingly rare sight. “There are approximately 25 individuals left in the world, most of which reside in the Tsavo Conservation Area. “A future where there are no ‘Big Tuskers’ in Tsavo is not worth thinking about,” Kyalo says.

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☆ The ‘Super Tuskers’ of Tsavo East National Park
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Meet Chris Fallows, the South African wildlife photographer behind 'Air Jaws' and more
▼ + stars: | 2021-09-09 | by ( Daryl Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Chris Fallows, world-renowned South African wildlife photographer, knows just how exhilarating this kind of experience can be. Fans of “Shark Week” have likely seen Fallows’ work; he was the first to capture a great white shark breaching the waters near Seal Island, off the coast of Cape Town, in 1996. I was very fortunate to be able to discover some pretty unique behavior at Seal Island and False Bay, and that was of the flying great white shark. Photographer Chris Fallows has been capturing images of iconic wildlife for nearly 30 years. Fallows: Wildlife photography is an incredibly glamorous, gratifying occupation.

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