In one of Africa's most beautiful places, the Amboseli ecosystem, elephants still range freely in coexistence with humans.
Elephants face hard times as food gets shorter, and many of the very young and old are dying.
Maasai pastoralists who share the land with the elephants also suffer from the dry spell. Because their half-starved cattle cannot find enough grass, the Kenya Wildlife Service is allowing the herd into the park for emergency grazing and water. The Maasai are traditionally tolerant of wildlife. They have a myth that all elephants are descended from a Maasai woman who looked back at the forbidden sight of her old home, like Lot's wife in the Bible, and was turned by God into an elephant. Maasai tolerance made Amboseli an exception to the rampant ivory tusk poaching of the 1970s, when Africa lost half her elephants in ten years.