Uplifting News: Elephants are saving African forests — by trampling through them | Good News Today

Uplifting News: Elephants are saving African forests — by trampling through them | Good News Today

Why this story matters: This is one of those stories that quietly proves progress doesn’t always come with loud headlines. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to saving, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. Traipsing through entire clearings of trees may sound like it does more harm than good, but every time elephants pluck their favorite fruit and trample trees, they’re contributing to a cleaner environment. In a Saint Louis University study, Stephen Blake — an assistant professor of biology at SLU — collected data on the ecological impacts of megaherbivores and found that “the role of forest elephants in our global environment is too important to ignore.” “Elephants are the gardeners of the forest,” Blake wrote, explaining that when elephants eat the fruit from high carbon density trees, they then disperse the seeds of new trees through their dung. Would you like to read more good news about Saving , Elephants , Trampling , Forests , …