This elephant population has built up steadily from a few thousand since the early 1900s and has escaped the massive illegal offtake that has decimated other populations in the 1970s and 1980s.

• 这个象群是从1900年的几千头稳定地增长起来的，它们躲过了1970年至1980年间非法捕猎的大批杀害。