Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population

 

(Posted 14th December 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

Ryan Truscott, Mongabay (U.S.), December 11, 2025
In Southern Africa overall, populations of elephants are stable, or even growing, but space for them is not. This pressure has increased human-elephant conflict and fueled calls from some for elephant culls. Z16’s epic trek underscores a quieter, more hopeful solution to the region’s so-called “elephant problem”: keeping the routes that connect fragmented ranges open through the creation and protection of wildlife corridors.
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