Mark Shand — British Writer born on June 28, 1951, died on April 23, 2014

Mark Roland Shand was a British travel writer and conservationist, and the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Shand was the author of four travel books and as a BBC conservationist, appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centered on the survival of Elephants. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002... (wikipedia)

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.
Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.
I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.
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.