Reader's Digest New Zealand - August/September 2025

COREY FAVINO, COURTESY OF NEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION AND ELEPHANT FAMILY USA F or those who aren’t headed on a safari any time soon, an art exhibit called The Great Elephant Migration is heading across America. It’ll pass through Wyoming in May and Montana in June. Each statue stands up to 11 feet tall and weighs as much as 750 pounds. They are made of lantana—a toxic weed that overtakes other vegetation that elephants eat—by Indigenous artisans in India’s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, for whom coexisting with elephants is second nature. “It gives people livelihood and clears lantana from the forest,” co-founder Tarsh Thekaekara told CBS News. “So it’s a win-win for both people and nature.” Have You Herd? reader ’ s digest 11 World of GOOD Reasons to Smile READERSDIGEST.CO.NZ | AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2025