and moved to the United States in 2014. At Columbia, he organized campus protests and co-founded the Palestinian Student Union with
Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority and the International Fund for Animal Welfare officers monitor an elephant’s movement using a drone in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)Zimbabwe’s collaring project may offer a way forward. Sixteen elephants, mostly matriarchs, have been fitted with GPS collars, allowing rangers to track entire herds by following their leaders. But Hwange holds about 45,000 elephants, and parks officials say it has capacity for 15,000. Project officials acknowledge a huge gap remains.
In a recent collaring mission, a team of ecologists, vets, trackers and rangers identified a herd. A marksman darted the matriarch from a distance. After some tracking using a drone and a truck, team members fitted the collar, whose battery lasts between two and four years. Some collected blood samples. Rangers with rifles kept watch.Once the collar was secured, an antidote was administered, and the matriarch staggered off into the wild, flapping its ears.“Every second counts,” said Kudzai Mapurisa, a parks agency veterinarian.
An elephant walks in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Monday, April 28 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)An elephant walks in the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, Monday, April 28 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)
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for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at“I didn’t let the ministers sign … because in my view it is not ready to protect us, our interest,” Zelenskyy told The Associated Press at the Munich Security Conference in February.
Bessent later said that Zelenskyy “blew up” the deal. Zelenskyy shot back, saying Bessent’s approach had been disrespectful.“My colleagues know that if someone taps their finger on an agreement and says, ‘You must sign now’ — I could only say to him, ‘Stop tapping your finger and let’s have a proper conversation,’” Zelenskyy later told reporters.
The two sides agreed to a new draft later in February.On Feb. 28, Zelenskyy arrived in Washington with the intention of signing the revised version of the deal. But Zelenskyy insists on adding explicit U.S. security guarantees to it, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be trusted to comply with a ceasefire deal.