We apologize for these images but they speak more eloquently than any politician of the plight of Zimbabwe's starving people
For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.
But for the starving of Zimbabwe, it was little short of a miracle.
The carcass provided a vital source of food, and hundreds of desperate villagers in the Gonarezhou National Park descended on the dead animal within minutes of its discovery.
Using machetes, axes and knives made from tin cans they set upon the six-ton carcass, which was found deep in scrubland.
Fallen giant: The corpse of the bull elephant lies undisturbed in deep scrubland in Gonarezhou National Park
