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A pair of male elephants is seen in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
The North West Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism, says it’s considering all scientific methods of controlling the elephant population growth at the Madikwe Game Reserve.
This comes after the True Green Alliance Wildlife NGO raised concerns about the starvation and death of elephants.
The conservation unit in the department has indicated that the elephant population at the game reserve has been growing at a fast pace, expanding to more than 1600 in 2024.
True Green Alliance’s Ryan Davy says, “The problem with too many elephants is that each elephant eats 150kg of food per day. If you calculate that by 1633 it will give you an idea of how much vegetation is destroyed from elephants and too many of them would have an effect on other species who are relying on the same vegetation to survive.”
GRAPHIC CONTENT: Concerns about starvation, deaths of elephants at Madikwe Game Reserve
