Living with Elephants (LWE) - in Botswana's Okavango Delta

One of the most over-used words in today’s English lexicon of meaningless marketing jargon is ‘unique’.
In the adjectival sense it refers to 'being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else’. As a noun, it speaks to 'a unique person or thing'.
Doug and Sandy Groves are fully unique, ticking both boxes. They live with their elephants as part of a family, walking with them every single day, moving around the Okavango Delta. But they weren’t always there.
When the animal park they were working in with their family of elephants in South Africa closed down, they took them to Botswana, and started a new life. Among them is Jabu, famous for an IBM TV advert a few decades ago, featuring an elephant family ‘climbing' a sand dune - with little Jabu struggling to catch up.
I met them a few years ago at a private concession in Botswana. They were having coffee in their tent, a few metres from their family, waiting for a tourist guest from a nearby lodge who had flown from NYC to walk with their elephants. That's when I decided I wanted to tell this story on one of the biggest platforms in South and southern Africa cable TV...