How a village in Botswana lives alongside 130,000 African elephants
Lauren Ulrich, a recipient of the 2025 Ross Hazeltine Travel Scholarship, traveled to Botswana to report on a village called Sankoyo, one of a few dozen villages in Botswana stuck between over 130,000 elephants and the Kalahari Desert.
Interviewees share that the African elephants, which are herbivores, prevent farmers from producing crops and from making a livable income for their families and community. The citizens grapple over solutions, most insisting that poaching is the only solution despite elephants being an endangered species worldwide.
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