To close dozens of elephants to curb the zimbabwe population and distribute meat to communities

The southern African country, Zimbabwe on Tuesday announced that it would kill dozens of elephants to control the size of the population and the meat from the bodies would be distributed among the people.After Botswana, Zimbabwe has the second largest elephant population in the world. Zimbabwe’s Wildlife Agency, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) said it has allowed a large private game reserve Valley Conservancy to be saved to complete the elephant population control program.The wildlife agency said it would first kill 50 elephants. It did not say how many will be killed or how long the process will take.According to a recent 2024 aerial survey, Sev Valley Conservancy has 2,550 elephants, however, the land can only support 800 elephants. Many elephants can damage the ecosystem, including plants and other animals. The agency believes that it is necessary to reduce the number of elephants for the safety of the region.In the last five years, at least 200 elephants have been translated into other parks.In a statement, Zimparks said, “Management practice will distribute elephant meat to local communities, while ivory will be the state’s property which will be handed over to Zimparks to protect.”Zimbabwe cannot sell ivory tusks due to the worldwide ban on Ivory Trading.Zimparks spokesman Tinshe Faravo told ABC News on Wednesday that “management exercise” is not “not” no, as the latter “includes wipe [out] The entire flock in a huge number of flocks. , He did not answer a question about how many elephants would be killed in total or how much time will it take in this process.Last year, wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe had chosen 200 elephants to provide food for drought -affected communities. It was the first major Kalam after 1988 in districts like Hwanga, Mbir, Tisholotso and Chiridiji.The move to hunt elephants for food has strongly criticized worldwide, mainly because elephants are a source of attraction for many tourists.