Environmentalists have discovered herds of wild elephants on an island in southern Sudanese swamps.
It is thought that the elephants moved to the island - in the Sudd area of the African nation - after civil war ravaged the country, displacing huge swathes of its animal population.
Tom Catterson, one of the US environmental workers operating in the region, told Reuters that the Sudd - an extremely flat area - was a fairly inhospitable area, but protected the elephants from the threat of poachers.
"It's not that good a habitat for elephants, but they're free of people shooting at them. You and I wouldn't stand a chance in there between the mosquitoes and the crocodiles. And you'd get lost."
He added that the discovery of the island - the location of which will be kept secret - was fairly magical: "We flew out of a cloud and there they were. It was like something out of Jurassic Park."
The country has been devastated by civil war for over 20 years, yet these elephants could constitute just a small selection of scores of herds hiding out in the Sudd.
