They survived centuries of elephant onslaught. Now climate change is killing these iconic baobabs

Mongabay
May 29, 2020, 6:16 pm246 pts
Scraping sounds fill the nights at Mapungubwe, a national park at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers, where the borders of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa meet. Families of elephants relentlessly tear the bark off ancient baobabs, scraping their tusks on the trees and digging deep into their…

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