South Africa to Resume Elephant Culling

South Africa government announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists.South Africa's elephant population has ballooned to more than 20,000 from 8,000 in 1995, when international pressure led to a ban on killing them. Under a set of final norms and standards for elephant management, to be published in the Government Gazette on Friday, the import and export of captive elephants will also be prohibited, and intensive breeding of elephants in captivity, other than by natural birth, will be prevented.

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