How I Told The Story Of Garbage Eating Elephants

A photo of a herd of #elephants foraging for food at a #garbage dump in #SriLanka recently took the world by storm — even winning first prize at the Royal Society of Biology (UK) photography competition. The heartbreaking photos were also widely circulated in publications around the world. This is how photographer Tharmapalan Tilaxan stumbled on this groundbreaking story.