A Crisis in Search of a Policy: How KZN’s Elephant ‘Overpopulation’ Is Used to Justify Culling
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A crisis in search of a policy: How KZN’s elephant ‘overpopulation’ is used to justify culling
By Adam Cruise - Daily Maverick KwaZulu-Natal’s elephant ‘overpopulation crisis’ is being presented as scientific inevitability. But official replies reveal contradictions, missing evidence and a regulatory process that has yet to catch up with the rhetoric. The claim by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife that KwaZulu-Natal faces an elephant “overpopulation crisis” has been advanced with striking confidence – and strikingly little evidentiary foundation. Fra…
A crisis in search of a policy: How KZN’s elephant ‘overpopulation’ is used to justify culling - Conservation Action Trust
KwaZulu-Natal’s elephant ‘overpopulation crisis’ is being presented as scientific inevitability. But official replies reveal contradictions, missing evidence and a regulatory process that has yet to catch up with the rhetoric. The claim by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife that KwaZulu-Natal faces an elephant “overpopulation crisis” has been advanced with striking confidence – and strikingly little evidentiary foundation. Framed as an urgent ecological emer…
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