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Why is there elephant culling?
Elephants now live in 2% of the land that they once occupied. Due to the fact that they are now concentrated in small areas they are a far greater burden on the environment. The is some speculation on what the carrying capacity is for eleph... Read More »
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What is elephant culling?
Elephant culling is when elephants are shot in order to reduce their population. At present this is done by killing the whole herd. There is some debate on this subject as their is overwhelming scientific evidence that culling is not necces... Read More »
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What is the alternative to elephant culling?
Actually it is an alternative, it's called human culling. That means, if you reduce the human population you reduce the human impact on animal populations and there is more room for the animals. Read More »
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I don't agree with it but, the expaination is similar to this: by culling the old and week it helps to control the amount of natural resource the rest need to survive. if they let the population go unchecked the food would run out!!!.. Like...
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It's a world wide travesty and the poachers should be culled from society. We need more funding for wild life rangers and a world wide ban on all forms of ivory and stiff punishments for those who sell or buy it.
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I lived in Africa for 18 years, my husband was an aircraft engineer and I did the PR for the private game reserves so spent 50% of my time in the 'wild'. Culling is essential, the alternative is to let a slow natural selection take place as...
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The problem is two fold - one the elephants feel safe and propagate really well in the Kruger Park and so there ends up being too many elleies for too little space and Two there are too many people on the continent and so their natural habi...
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working on the assumption that any life is better than none, I suppose they are better off in a circus than dead or starving. However, if we are to keep them in captivity then we must give them the best quality of life that we can. i don't ...
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It's the same with many large game animals - they destroy much of the local fauna/fora which also needs conservation, thus some must be culled. Provided this is carried out humanely and quickly I don't think it's a problem as there are not ...
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