The continued rise of elephant populations give wildlife managers pause

 

(Posted 23rd June 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

Ryan Helcoski, UPR (Switzerland) June 20, 2025
“So, elephants in one area may be locally extinct, but a few hundred kilometers down the road, they are heavily over populated, to put it, basically. And that’s the situation around Africa,” said Richard Sowry who has been a section ranger in the far north of the Kruger National Park since 2002. “The density of elephants up here is high enough that every single tree has got what I term unsustainable impact on it in this riverine forest,” he said.
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