African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Peacefully drinking their fill. In July 2016 tourists on the Namibian side of the Okavango River had the nightmare of helplessly observing a very different outcome. On the Angolan side of the river, about 150 meters away and in broad daylight, 5 poachers with AK-47s and grenades attacked a herd of 40 drinking elephants.
http://africageographic.com/blog/barbaric-elephant-slaughter-angola/
One African elephant is slaughtered by poachers every 15 minutes, about 35,000/yr.!! Please pitch in, donate what you can to stop the madness and save elephants from extinction! I have spent hours researching with the greatest scrutiny and suggest the following extremely efficient elephant conservation charities (your gift goes to field work, not spam, junk mail, free calendars, or cocktail parties for VIPs!):
Big Life Foundation- https://biglife.org/
SOS Elephants-
http://www.soselephants.org/conservation.html