If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.
From Mark Shand
I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.
Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.
If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.
Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.
In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.
There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.
I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.
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