Southern Africa: Zimbabwe Authorizes Killing of 50 Elephants to Manage Population

• Zimbabwe has approved the controlled killing of 50 elephants in the Save Valley Conservancy to manage rising elephant populations
• The meat will be distributed to local communities, while ivory from the culled elephants will be retained by the state and stored by ZimParks.
• Zimbabwe hosts the second-largest elephant population in the world, after neighboring Botswana, with tens of thousands of elephants spread across reserves

Zimbabwe has approved the controlled killing of 50 elephants in the Save…