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On April 4 and 5, 1995, the Serena Lodge of the Amboseli National Park in Kenya hosted a two-day stakeholder workshop for the administrators and personnel of the park, the indigenous Maasai communities, local and foreign ecologists, tour operators, local journalists and policymakers, as well as national and international donors. The goal of the meeting was to discuss the fate of the local elephant population and, in particular, the possibility of reducing their numbers in the park. Raising questions about the preservation of a landmark African species and about land management in postcolonial Africa, the workshop was predictably controversial and, in many ways, typical of public debates about science and technology. Charis Thompson’s case study of the Amboseli elephants and their many stakeholders (Thompson, 2002; see also Denayer, 2013) thus provides a first example of the kind of terrain that controversy mappers are trying to chart.