Zimbabwe – Plans have been made to slaughter 200 elephants in Zimbabwe in order to provide meat to people facing food shortages in the drought-stricken area. Namibia also plans to kill dozens of elephants and hundreds of other animals to provide food to needy communities, reports the Associated Press. 

The elephants will be culled from an area where approximately 200,000 live – the region holds the world’s largest population of elephants.

Tinashe Farawo, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) spokesperson, told Reuters:

“We can confirm that we are planning to cull about 200 elephants across the country. We are working on modalities on how we are going to do it.”

According to Farawo, the elephants cull is “an effort to decongest the parks in the face of drought.” The killings are expected to begin as soon as permits are issued. Zimbabwe’s Environment Minister Sithembiso Nyoni has already given approval, stating:

“Indeed Zimbabwe has more elephants than we need, more elephants than our forestry can accommodate.”

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