Commentary highlights struggles for elephants in the wild

emagazine.com published Samantha Grasso's commentary "The Plight of the Elephant. She describes challenges facing wild elephants in Africa and Asia. While poaching remains a serious threat, disease, loss of habitat and human-elephant conflict all affect populations of wild elephants.

According to Deborah Olson, executive director of International Elephant Foundation, of all of these challenges, human-elephant conflict may be the most widespread and difficult to manage. Dickerson Park Zoo proudly supports conservation efforts in Sri Lanka to reduce human-elephant conflict.