How would you deal with human-elephant conflict? Play 'Trunk Tales' to decide

A female elephant being fitted with a satellite collar by Wildlife Rescue Rangers in Kinabatangan district, Sabah, on Sept 30, 2021. Sahana, as she was named, was later found dead of heavy metal poisoning, on Oct 9 that year. With habitat loss, elephants are coming into contact with human activities more, often to their detriment. — Sabah Wildlife Rescue Unit

TIME to tackle the elephant in the room. With the board game Trunk Tales developed by conservation group the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME), everyone can.

MEME explained the game in a statement: “Trunk Tales is an educational role-playing game designed to showcase the complexities of multi-stakeholder management of human-elephant conflicts to achieve coexistence.