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Were they the good guys?

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Michael Gallant
Jul 12, 2023
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This morning, I listened to a New York Times Audio story about wealthy Americans who devoted themselves to saving elephants in Zambia. I knew basically nothing of the subject, beyond the hazy baseline assumption that conservation is generally good—and poaching generally isn’t.

Now, I’m not so sure.

The Times story shares multi-hued accounts of the mone…

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