Before she became a bestselling author, American eco activist Delia Owens, with her husband, saved wildlife but did so by altering communities that had trapped animals and lived off the land for generations.
The hunter heard the helicopter coming. He grabbed his AK-47, he said, and jumped behind a tree. He was on an illegal elephant hunt with a group of men inside North Luangwa National Park in the southern African nation of Zambia. Smoke rose from the butchered meat that lay grilling on wooden racks.
They had been spotted.
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