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Elephants in the water.

Leon Kachelhoffer.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)
A ute goes down a dirt road in Botswana.
Leon's ute.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A group of elephants crosses a highway.
Elephants and people are increasingly coming into conflict in Botswana.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)
An elephant attacks a tourist vehicle.
An elephant attacks a tourist vehicle.(Supplied)

A map of Botswana.

Kids make crosses with their arms in front of their chests.
Kids from a village near Shokomoka in north-west Botswana.(Foreign Correspondent: Matt Davis)

An elephant skull in murky water.
An elephant skull is processed at a trophy dealer in Botswana.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

Elephant skulls lined up on the floor.
Elephant skulls in a trophy dealer's workshop in Botswana.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A man scrapes a knife on an animal hide.
A worker scrapes an animal hide at Debbie Peake's trophy workshop.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A man cleans an animal skull.
A worker cleans an animal skull.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A taxidermy lioness.
A taxidermy lioness.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)
A taxidermy antelope.
A trophy ready for a client.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A lioness walking next to a waterhole.
About 40 per cent of Botswana is protected for wildlife.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)
A giraffe.
A giraffe.(Foreign Correspondent: Matt Davis)
A man in a car with a long lens camera.
Safari tourists.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

Hippos poking their heads out of a lake.
Parts of Botswana's north attract safari tourism but others don't see the same benefit.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A man looks through binoculars.
Oaitse Nawa founded an NGO to help communities live alongside elephants.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)
An elephant wades into the water.
An elephant in the Okavango Delta.(Foreign Correspondent: Marty Smiley)

A river in the green landscape at sunset.
The Okavango Delta region of Botswana.(Foreign Correspondent: Matt Davis)
An elephant with water dribbling out of its mouth.
Botswana's elephant population has doubled in the past three decades.(Foreign Correspondent: Matt Davis)

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