And the scattering Reid has in mind isn't so much the scattering of ashes, but what bereft elephants do when they find the bones of their relatives picked clean by scavengers.
THE scavengers for disused metal fled, as riot police wearing their old Qaddafi-era uniforms drove back into their old base after recovering it from one of Libya's most powerful Islamist militias, Libyan Shield Number One.
As might be expected, lots of avian scavengers have been dug out of them: some 720 vultures, for example.
Even abandoned houses have temporary visitors not just the armies of scavengers snatching copper wire and steel pipes, but also the occasional card players and drinkers.
Some of the Smokey Mountain scavengers even moved to Payatas to carry on their old trade.
Scavengers have even dug up the foundations of the Palestinian passport office.Israeli army men note the risks of an unbridled arms build-up and fear that, if Hamas consolidates in Gaza, it may launch a military takeover in the West Bank.
Although the young scavengers' digestive systems might be well adapted to digesting bone fragments, they are not suited to handling plastic, metal and glass.Dr Wallace and his colleagues are undaunted by this problem and have already set up two programmes they hope will put an end to the birds' junk-food habits.
At the bottom are the scavengers: those women with nothing but a sack and a stick with a hook at one end.
The chambers, which were placed in the middle of a field, prevented large scavengers from coming along and dragging the corpses away.
Formalising the work of scavengers, who, it reckons, collect between half and all the rubbish in developing countries, cuts costs to cities, helps the environment and reduces poverty.
According to this law, the definition of "manual scavenger" has been widened to include a person engaged or employed for manual cleaning of human excreta in an insanitary latrine, an open drain or pit, on railway tracks, etc. Rehabilitation has been included in the act, and scholarship for children of manual scavengers, and training in another profession along with a stipend.
