Eco-damage threatens elephants and ants
Roger Highfield, London Telegraph
10/01/2008

Biologists have often complained conservation efforts are focused too much on charismatic big animals to the exclusion of vast numbers of insects, plants and other small creatures.

Ants and elephants

If elephants disappear from the east African savanna, ants are likely to go too, a study has shown.

Now a study has shown that if elephants, giraffes and other picture-postcard animals disappear from the eastern African savanna, the ecological damage may extend, ironically, to the acacia trees they eat and cascade all the way to down to affect ants too.

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