It’s understood the mass cull has already begun, with the elephants due to be shot this week. Already 157 animals have been hunted by professional hunters and companies contracted by the ...

That means the ivory comes not from poaching or confiscation, but from animals that died naturally or -- in the case of South Africa -- from the period before 1994 when elephant culling was ...

Zimbabwe will cull 200 elephants as it faces an unprecedented drought that has led to food shortages while also tackling a ballooning population of the animals, the country's wildlife authority ...

Adult elephants can eat 150 kilograms (330 pounds) of vegetation and drink 200 liters of water a day and have no problem pulling down trees, destroying fields of crops and boreholes and ransacking ...

Some African countries cull elephants to control their numbers or allow them to be hunted to raise money. They have sometimes been criticized for that, and the issue was best vocalized last year ...