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As climate change intensifies, animals need the freedom to move

A desert elephant’s 600km journey reveals why conservationists and governments need to rethink the use of fences

A herd of elephants moves through a rural Namibian village. Photos: Morgan Hauptfleisch.
A single elephant’s journey highlights a central tension in African conservation today: the clash between roaming wildlife and fenced landscapes.
A collared desert elephant bull in Namibia moved north into communal conservancies and then Etosha National Park.
“He moved through commercial farms, broke through many, many, many fences … In two weeks, he moved about 600 kilometres in a very targeted way,” says conservation scientist Morgan Hauptfleisch.
Hauptfleisch believes the journey was shaped by inherited patterns of movement that long predate modern borders.
“Perhaps there’s a memory, there’s an old memory of a certain plant that fruits at a time, where there’s been a particular type of…

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