South Africa: Parliament pushes for urgent action on Mawana’s roaming elephant herd

South Africa: Parliament pushes for urgent action on Mawana’s roaming elephant herd

By Don Pinnock - Daily Maverick Elephants don’t respect land ownership and without restraints they roam. But with bad fencing and a growing herd, a showdown was inevitable. In a heated and emotionally charged session of the South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Environment this week, a community member from KwaZulu-Natal’s Ulundi region described the ongoing crisis caused by a herd of roaming elephants from the privately owned Mawana…