Lost nature cannot be restored. But maybe we can do more than just view the images in documentaries showing awesome elephants washing themselves in rivers on the rich African plain. Maybe, paraphrasing the report's conclusion, the situation of the African elephant can cause us to think on the question of what the relationship between man and other life forms should be.
失去的自然，永遠不再回來，除了借紀錄片緬懷壯觀的象群在水草豐美的非洲草原上汲水清洗身軀，套用報告的說法，「非洲象的處境，或許只能召喚每個人都想想：什麼是人與其他生物之間關係的解答？」