These are wild elephants coming close to the camping ground to enjoy their daily requirement of 200 litres of water each!
A major issue all over Southern Africa concerns the emotive issue of elephant conservation. In the west people generally hold a preservationist viewpoint, that elephant herds should be conserved for their own sake or for aesthetic reasons; however, the local sentiment maintains that the elephant must justify its existence on long-term economic grounds for the benefit of the local people, or the country as a whole (a conservationist view). In fact, the same arguements can be applied to most other wildlife.