BBC News - The elephant that flew

BBC News - The elephant that flew: "A baby elephant is filmed standing in a small aircraft, eye-to-eye with the pilot, Gary Roberts - an American nurse and missionary. The orphaned calf is the only survivor of a massacre by poachers. This is how Roberts did his best to keep the animal alive.

In March 2013 Gary Roberts received a worrying telephone call. There were rumours, he heard, that 100 elephants had been killed near the border between Chad and Cameroon. Could he fly over the area to check whether the reports were true, the caller asked.

In his Cessna aircraft he managed to pick up the herd's tracks and followed them to an area of low scrub - the massacre zone."



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