(Posted 14th November 2025)
Courtesy of African Elephant News
| Tony Carnie, Daily Maverick (South Africa), November 11, 2025 |
| The decline in elephant numbers across most of Africa has not been uniform, with many populations growing rapidly in the southern part of the continent. The recent ‘Elephant in the Room’ conference in Zimbabwe focused on three main options — chopping elephant numbers; limiting further growth via contraception, or finding more space for a species that has already lost 85% of its historic living range due to human expansion. There was also a more limited discussion on the ‘do nothing’ option. |
| Read more (10 min) |
