African elephants have drastically declined in last 50 years
In August, Namibia announced it had embarked on a cull of 723 animals, including 83 elephants, 30 hippos and 300 zebras. The following month, Zimbabwe authorized the slaughter of 200 elephants.
The study did not track a continent-wide population tally because the various surveys employed different methodologies over ...
The mighty tusker, killed by a professional hunter, was one of 200 wild elephants culled in the past month on Zimbabwe government orders to feed people facing a life-or-death battle for food and ...
Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in decades. With ...
In late August 2024, Namibia announced plans to slaughter 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants—a number later raised to a staggering 1,002 ...
Zimbabwe has decided to cull 200 elephants following an earlier declaration of a national state of disaster caused by the drought. Photo: Marianne Botha/Farmer's Weekly Zimbabwe recently ...
Almost all the elephants, perhaps as many as 100,000, were either killed or driven out to become refugees in northern Botswana and Namibia, or western Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 2016, the National ...
They have also claimed that they have more than enough elephants (in Zimbabwe’s statement it’s "too many elephants”) and that the cull will alleviate ongoing human-elephant conflict situations.
A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel hit a herd of wild elephants in northeast Sri Lanka, killing two of the giant mammals and injuring one other as two of its tankers got derailed ...
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