Vatsala, Asia’s oldest known elephant, died on July 8th, 2025, aged around 100

Mongabay
Jul 14, 2025, 11:58 pm70 ptsTrending
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For more than a century, Vatsala stood. Through wars and heatwaves, bureaucracies and monsoons, she moved through India’s forests with a gait that outlasted the institutions…

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