If you’ve ever visited our Elephant Conservation and Care Centre, you may have seen the large worn trees in every elephant enclosure. Elephants are notoriously hard on trees, taking just seconds to destroy what took nature 20 years to grow. So our team “plants” large, sturdy tree stumps as enrichments and scratching posts for elephants. But that doesn’t mean they’re not part of the natural ecosystem! In this photo, a family of spotted owlets made a home in Maya and Phoolkali’s enclosure.
Photo by Thomas Sharp.












