Zimbabwe Plans to Cut Elephant Herd by 5,000
State game rangers plan to slaughter 5,000 of Zimbabwe’s 80,000 elephants to curb overpopulation, but they first need to raise $2 million for the operation, the government said Monday.
Rowan Martin, an official with the national parks and wildlife agency, said Zimbabwe has to reduce its elephant population or risk having its woodlands destroyed and the ecosystems in state-run national parks disturbed.
“If we keep putting this off we are going to have serious problems,” Martin told the Zimbabwe Inter-African News Agency.
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