Zimbabwe Considering First Elephant Cull in Almost Four Decades
- African nation has 130 tons of elephant ivory in stocks
- Zimbabwe last conducted an elephant cull back in 1988
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Zimbabwe is considering culling elephants for the first time since 1988 and using the meat to feed people who have been affected by a crippling drought, a cabinet minister said.
“Zimbabwe has more elephants than we need” and more than its forests can support, Environment Minister Sithembiso Nyoni told lawmakers in Mount Hampden, north of the capital Harare, on Wednesday. Discussions are under way about culling some elephants and providing the dried meat “to some communities that need the protein,” she said.