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Americans tried to save elephants in Zambia. Were they the good guys?

By Ruth Maclean & Collins Chilumba Sampa
New York Times·
13 mins to read
Americans tried to save elephants in Zambia. Were they the good guys?
Bernard Mutondo once made a living hunting elephants in North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, until Delia and Mark Owens arrived. Photo / Gulshan Khan, The New York Times

A visit to a remote conservation park reveals the long-term impact on villagers of a crusade by the novelist Delia Owens and her husband to protect animals from poachers.

The hunter heard the helicopter coming. He grabbed his AK-47, he said, and jumped behind a tree. He was on an

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