Where?
Almost all of the comments on this subject are Western in the most offensive sense of the word.
We see elephants as wonderous beasts. However, we're not living with them.
For the folks who live with them, elephants can be horribly destructive. They don't kill many people, but they do cause food shortages and the like.
It takes a lot of nerve to say that our desire to have a cool animal somewhere else should take precedence over their lives.
Elephants in the wild won't exist unless they're "good neighbors". That requires making sure that they're profitable to the people around them.
Parsons paid them lots of money to kill an elephant that was going to be killed anyway. Realistically, his alternative was to do nothing.
What have you done to help those people benefit from living near elephants in the wild?
He had an opportunity to shoot an elephant in a debatably ethical way, and he wanted to shoot an elephant.
