Mulling a cull

摘要

It looks likely that South Africa's park authorities will soon start killing families of elephants. Last week, Hector Ma-gome, head of conservation for National Parks, trumpeted the news. "We are strongly leaning towards culling and we want the public to digest this hard fact," he said. The biggest need is in Kruger National Park, in north-east South Africa. This area the size of Israel is apparently overstuffed with elephants. It has seen no cull since 1994, when there were about 7,000 animals; now there are at least 12,000.