I walked through the Alentejo in March on the Fisherman's Trail. Long days in golden grassland, cork oaks casting shade, barely another person in sight. It felt ancient. Today I read that Europe's first elephant sanctuary is opening in exactly that landscape — on a former cattle ranch where the animals will help restore land where wild elephants walked 40,000 years ago. Julie, Portugal's last circus elephant. Kariba, alone in a Belgian zoo for years. They meet next month. I don't often say a story made my morning. This one did.