Short Truths Episode 20 - Is An Elephant Really Worth $1.6 MILLION?
Description
Today’s question is whether an elephant is really worth an eye-watering $1.6 million of its lifetime, and Robbie is here to provide the context needed to understand this talking point in just 5 minutes. The original 2014 report by the David Schildrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya was picked up by numerous news outlets and went viral, but the intent of the report was to show the live value of an elephant when compared to a POACHING context, not a legal and regulated hunting context.
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