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Researchers document huge drop in African elephants in a half century
Elephants vanished at some sites while their populations increased ... with strong growth in populations in Botswana, ...
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Two African countries say they need to kill elephants for food. Critics say it’s cruel and won’t work
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.
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Zimbabwe: Elephants die from 'bacterial disease'
A number of elephants have been found dead in Zimbabwe in recent weeks (file photo) Wildlife officials in Zimbabwe say they suspect a bacterial disease is responsible for the deaths of more than ...
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Zimbabwe has been hit by a drought so severe, villagers and wildlife are locked in a life-or-death battle for food and water. SUE REID asks why British luvvies are now ...
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 ...
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A coalition of groups join forces to oppose Namibia & Zimbabwe’s horrific wildlife cull
In late August 2024, Namibia announced plans to slaughter 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants—a number later raised to a staggering 1,002 ...
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Drought in southern Africa: Zimbabwe, Namibia to cull elephants to feed the hungry
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 confirmed ...
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Do elephants get PTSD? This conservationist thinks so
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 ...
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Namibia: Are Politics and Profit Behind Plans to Cull Elephants?
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.
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Man Killed By Wild Elephants In City Where 10 Tuskers Have Died In 3 Days
An elderly man was killed in an attack by wild elephants on Saturday outside the buffer zone of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh, where 10 jumbos died in three days this week ...
Nigeria's last elephants: What must be done to save them?
Nigeria has a unique elephant population, made up of both forest-dwelling (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savanna-dwelling (Loxodonta africana) elephant species. But the animals are facing unprecedented ...
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I Visited Elephants in the Wild in Thailand — Here’s How You Can, Too
The mystique surrounding elephants has been ingrained in Thai culture for centuries. White elephants, in particular, have been considered symbols of wisdom, power, and good fortune since the birth ...
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Two African countries say they need to kill elephants for food. Critics say it’s cruel and won’t work
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. Both ...