The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:Could either be disease, environmental issues (lack of food, water or some other anomaly) or a serious spike in poaching. Definitely shitty whatever it is that's doing this.
Probably not poaching. Or else poachers would have moved in to take the tusks.
Lack of food? I'm seeing a full-sized elephant in at least one of the pictures.
Poisoning of the water (deliberate or accidental), or disease, then.
One of the elephants is pictured dead at a water-hole, which is obviously saline. Maybe elephants are like people, and they will drink poisonously saline water if they're very thirsty. ?