farmers and agricultural agents should work closely with wildlife conservationists before taking measures to control elephants the preservation of wildlife may endanger human welfare it is unfair that people in any country should have to endure food shortages it is time to remove elephants from the list of endangered species
The television documentary went beyond the save-the-wildlife pieties of some of those remote from East Africa and showed that in a country pressed for food, the elephant is a pest, and an intelligent pest at that. There appears to be no way to protect East African farms from the voracious foraging of night-raiding elephant herds. Clearly this example illustrates that __.
Which one of the following most logically completes the paragraph?