by Adam Cruise | Jul 6, 2021 | News
By Miriam Mangwaya, Newsday he Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has objected to the decision by government to control the elephant population by culling. Zimbabwe has Africa’s second largest elephant population after Botswana, at 83 000, about 66% more...
by Adam Cruise | May 6, 2021 | News
By Ray Ndlovu – Bloomberg via Aljazeera Zimbabwe is considering the mass killing of elephants, known as culling, for the first time since 1988 to reduce the 100,000 strong population of the animals. The government of Zimbabwe, which has the world’s...
by Adam Cruise | May 21, 2019 | Commentary
By Dr Louise de Waal – Conservation Action Trust President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana categorically denies that his government would ever cull elephants, contradicting the Parliamentary Report proposing culling.However, Minister of Environment and...
by Adam Cruise | May 17, 2019 | Commentary
By PETER FABRICIUS – ISS Today (Institute for Security Studies) Are Southern African governments allowing resentment against perceived Western finger-wagging to cloud their judgement? If Botswana’s elephants could sniff the political atmosphere in the country,...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 17, 2019 | News
By APA News Botswana’s neighbours, namely, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have reaffirmed their support to Botswana’s management plans on elephants which include among others lifting of hunting ban and culling of elephants, APA learned here Tuesday.In...
