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The famous elephant Kavantissa, considered the tallest living male elephant in Sri Lanka, died on October 16 after a gunshot wound. His death drew attention to the human-elephant conflict problem: according to official data, since 2019 an average of 370 elephants and 125 people die annually.
Sevara AzamovaUp to a thousand elephants climb the Udzungwa Mountains to an altitude of about 2,000 meters in search of bamboo and minerals. In April 2025, the government of Tanzania designated the roughly 14-kilometer Nyerere–Udzungwa corridor as the country's first legally protected wildlife corridor. In the first 15 months, cameras recorded at least 1,400 animal crossings, 529 of them by elephants.
Javlon TursunovAn international team led by a scientist from the University of California, Santa Barbara studied 40 elephant carcass sites and found that the remains alter soil composition and animal behavior for years. Ammonium concentrations near fresh remains were on average 31 times higher than in control plots, and impalas and lions fed there about three times more often — an effect that lasted more than seven years.
Madina Usmonova
