Lawsuit targets Big Conservation over deadly elephant translocation in Malawi – The Mail & Guardian

Lawsuit targets Big Conservation over deadly elephant translocation in Malawi – The Mail & Guardian

The midmorning sun casts lazy shadows across the cracked earth of Chafwamba village in central Malawi’s Kasungu town.  Chickens peck at the base of a withering pumpkin vine. Barefoot children clamour around their father who sits on a veranda slicing a pumpkin.  If life were to imitate Big Conservation’s marketing photography, a magnificent but peaceful Jumbo would appear on the edge of the frame, indifferently co-existing with the people living …