They will kill elephants again =(

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Elephant Cull Back on the Menu in South Africa - Animal Rights Protests

South Africa has decided once again to allow elephants to be killed to control their burgeoning population, but has promised that there will be no wholesale slaughter. This decision reverses a 1995 ban and has drawn boycott threats from animal rights activists.

The comprehensive policy on managing and protecting elephants included a ban on capturing wild elephants for commercial purposes a move likely to draw fire from a fast-growing industry in elephant-back safaris. Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said his government was drawing up regulations for treating the 120 elephants in captivity in the country, saying his department had received numerous complaints about cruel training practices including the use of electric prodders.

The minister would give no indication how many elephants might be killed, saying only that figures of 2,000 to 10,000 being bandied about by various interest groups were «hugely inflated.
‘Culling will only be allowed as a last option and under very strict conditions,’ van Schalkwyk told reporters. MORE

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This is called populace control. It does not mean killing every single elephant that crosses your way. And does not imply an indefinite, chaotic slaughter of elephants wherever you spot them.

The bottomline is, maintaining a balance between animal population and floral diversity. Do you want all trees destroyed?