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Elephant options in Africa May 2, 2008

Posted by Ralph Pina in : Animals, Conservation, Safari, Tourism, ecotourism , 1 comment so far del.icio.us:Elephant options in Africa digg:Elephant options in Africa newsvine:Elephant options in Africa blinklist:Elephant options in Africa furl:Elephant options in Africa reddit:Elephant options in Africa blogmarks:Elephant options in Africa Y!:Elephant options in Africa

No doubt you have heard by now that South Africa has decided that culling will once again be an optional intervention in the management of elephant populations, albeit an intervention of last resort, to address what is known as “the elephant problem”. Elephant conservation has been enormously successful in southern Africa (58% of the population), to the extent that some conservationists now argue that there are “too many” elephants. Personally, I think that the problem could be restated as “too little elephant habitat”. (more…)