I can't beleive people are still opposing culling. Elephants have historically been culled in Southern Africa and their numbers have always been stable and in direct accordance to the carrying capacity of the land.
Then the conservation authorities bowed to the pressure of the emotional public element - The back-seat conservationists, and what happened? Very predictably, the quality of the bush dropped in perfect synch with the exploding elephant population.
In other words, to all the anti-culling folk out there, you had it your way for 14 years, it cost millions, it's caused severe damage to areas with a high rate of endemism, it's adversly affecting hundreds of other species and it has been categorically proven not to work.
At last some sound conservation practices can commence again
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