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That's Babar-ic!
South Africa to resume elephant culling despite criticism |
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26 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:49 AM on 26 Feb 2008 South Africa announced it will resume killing elephants in May for the first time since a 1995 ban on the practice. Wildlife officials argued that culling is necessary to reduce elephant populations in the country due to their impacts on vegetation and other species; the number of elephants has more than doubled since the ban to about 20,000, which wildlife managers consider unsustainable ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, news, South Africa, wildlife (all these topics) |
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