As South Africa’s elephants swell from 500 to 3,000 in the Associated Private Nature Reserves, the debate rages over how to ...

Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ...

Tony Carnie’s detailed article from the recent “Elephant in the Room” conference in Harare paints exactly that picture: the region’s high elephant density, anxious managers and three big levers on the ...

Zimbabwe plans to cull 200 elephants to feed communities facing acute hunger after the worst drought in four decades, wildlife authorities said on Tuesday. The El Nino-induced drought wiped out crops ...

Elephants confined in fenced spaces are an ecological and economic challenge, but removing the species also has consequences. At a time when virtually no one in South Africa wants elephants and the ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...

Zimbabwe is preparing to cull 200 elephants in response to a severe drought and rising ecological pressures, according to an announcement made last week by Environment Minister Sithembiso Nyoni in ...

Zimbabwe's government said Thursday it is considering a proposal to cull its elephant population to address food shortages and reduce the effects of an El Nino-induced drought. "Zimbabwe has more ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a practice banned since 1994 as ...

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