Sad Elephant Story

[Fred]

This is a sad story about Max the baby elephant that was rescued from a massacre.

Max was part of a group of elephants that had been massacred on the border between Chad and Cameroon, Gary Roberts flew over the area in his Cessna light aircraft and confirmed that almost 100 elephants had died.

"It was a terrible sight," says Roberts. "It was really just piles of bones that were left because the meat had been extracted." In the two days since poachers had taken the tusks, locals had stripped the carcasses.

"There were large pools of blood on the ground that you could still see from so many animals," he says. The carcasses were spread over a couple of miles.

Roberts rescued the baby elephant and bundled him into his plane and took him to his home to give him around the clock care, but unfortunately although he did everything he could to save him Max sadly died 10 days later.

You can read the full story and see a video of Max in the plane here: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29060814