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“About 97 percent of all the elephants were killed, and the ones that are left don’t like us very well,” says National Geographic filmmaker Bob Poole, referring to the elephants who live in Gorongosa National Park, a population that was heavily hunted by soldiers during Mozambique’s civil war.
During the 15-year war, elephants in Gorongosa were killed for their ivory tusks, which soldiers sold to purchase weapons. “Elephants were shot from vehicles, from army trucks, and 20 years later they still have a negative association with people and vehicles,” Poole explains. “Their reaction is very aggressive, because their association with people has been nothing but danger.”
Poole and his sister, Dr. Joyce Poole, a renowned African elephant expert and National Geographic explorer, are trying to teach the elephants that their relationship with people can be positive and that not all people come with ill intent.
“People in the park are having very terrifying experiences being charged and chased by elephants. Joyce and I both think that we can habituate these elephants to vehicles and people by showing them that we come in peace,” explains Bob Poole. “The danger in that is, of course, if we’re wrong, they could quite easily hit u
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