For more than ten years, a rumour persisted among hunters and villagers in the remote eastern highlands of Angola: somewhere in the peat bogs and miombo woodland above 4,000 feet, a small band of elephants was living almost entirely unseen. Locals called them ghost elephants. Conservationists doubted such a population could exist so far from any known herd — until a motion-triggered camera finally caught one on film in 2024, and genetic testing …
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