Elephant Orphans and Ecological Spiritualities: An Earth Day Reflection
…the elephants’ mouth, because, he laughs, “elephants have teeth.” Another caretaker takes to a microphone to explain how the thirty or so elephants they watch over at the moment landed there. One was simply found wandering. One caught in a snare. One mother is simply missing. Many of them orphaned victims of the ivory trade and poaching. The list is heartbreaking. The juxtaposition of the mental images of the history of suffering alongside the sh…
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