elephant aerial shots by (click pic) michael nichols, tyler hicks, alex bernasconi, michael poliza and brent stirton over botswana’s okavango delta, namibia’s damaraland and soussusvlei, kenya’s masai mara and chad’s zakouma national park . 

consider that an african elephant is killed by poachers every 15 minutes, and if current trends continue unabated, they will be extinct in a decade.