Increasing clashes between elephants and humans in Zimbabwe highlight the effects of population pressure and climate change

 

(Posted 21st July 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

 

Edith Mugabe, El País (Spain), July 20, 2025
Joramu Dipuka gets nervous every time he hears an elephant’s trumpet. Dipuka, who lives in Batonga, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Kariba in Zimbabwe, a city 356 kilometers (221 miles) from the capital, Harare, is frightened by the sound because it reminds him of his encounter with one of these giant animals in 2013, an event that nearly cost him his life.
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