As South Africa wrestles with elephant management, delays and a lack of accountability could push culling from a last resort ...

KwaZulu-Natal’s elephant ‘overpopulation crisis’ is being presented as scientific inevitability. But official replies reveal ...

In nature, death and killing is natural. In systems where populations are too high and resources become limited Mother Nature ...

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are pushing back against a local government plan to allow culling and trophy hunting to reduce elephant numbers in Madikwe Game Reserve. According to the North ...

In South Africa they have a problem, a big one: too many elephants. For most of the 1900s extensive poaching threatened to wipe out the country’s elephants. In response, conservationists established ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A group of elephants walk near a solar panel at a watering hole inside Hwange National Park HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwe ...

It’s been a bad few years for South Africa’s elephants. Pressure is mounting, with growing talk of “too many elephants”, plans to move or cull populations and renewed interest in hunting as a ...

According to the media, the Save Valley Conservancy in southern Zimbabwe is home to approximately 2,550 elephants, whereas it has a "carrying capacity" of 800 elephants HARARE, June 3. /TASS/.