Zimbabwe mulls elephant culling
“Zimbabwe is considering culling a ballooning elephant population that it is struggling to control, an official said Wednesday.” – Citizen
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May 26, 2007
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I am sending this webemail response to plead with the Zimbabwean authorities, foresteries and park officials NOT TO KILL/CULL THE MAGNIFICIENT ELEPHANTS in your country. Mass Culling of Elephants is barbaric, inhumane, extremely cruel, unethical, unnecessary and MUST NOT BE CARRIED OUT. What if we did this to human beings (not too long ago, we had seen this genocide in Nazi Germany during Hitlers regime). Elephants are higly evolved, extraordinarily intelligent, emotionally aware, social, family oriented animals and this day and age, we ALL NEED TO STEP IN AND SAVE THEM. Please consider re-location, transporting to any other part of Africa where they can be safely accomodated in a wild park, state run reservation. Mass Culling causes extraordinary pain and suffering for these animals. They need to be given their space and mankind should be responsible for making sure these extraordinary animals are being protected, saved and managed better with more land being allocated for conservation efforts. Elephants used to roam in the millions 1000 to 2000 years ago. Mankind has no right to take upon himself, for that matter no goverment or agency should be made to take decision affecting adversely the life and welfare of these amazing animals which have lived from the time of the dinasaours. I plead and ask the govt. agencies in Zimbabwe to evaluate other options and completely negate from the decision to cull elephants. They are the assets for any land and we have to raise all awareness and allocate resources and spread the knowledge of letting these magnificient animals to live their lives in the forests and preserves of all countries around the world.
I will greatly appreciate if you would also make sure, Elephants are not being killed for their ivory or meat and African people should be educated about the greatness of having these animals in their nations and goverment and agencies must take steps to educate it’s citizens encourage eco-tourism to help with the management of elephants and to spread the consciousness of preserving and helping these creatures survive in our planet as well.
I hope my pleas will not fall in deaf ears and you will take it upon yourselves to kindly look into all avenues for preserving these great Elephants for many centuries to come in your country and elsewhere and make all efforts necessary to not to kill these beautiful animals. I am sure I am representing millions of human beings who feel the need and urgency to make sure to spread the awareness that African Elephants are still very much endangered and it is mankinds responsibility all over the world to treat them humanely which includes NON-CULLING or MASS KILLING of the Elephant Populations and make more land available and prevent de-forestation. MASS CULLING of Elephants is so distressing, extraordinarily cruel and torturous for these huge animals weighing in the tons to be shot down with 100 or bullets for each of them to die. The baby elephants become traumatized during this gruesome ordeal and the grief and trauma they feel is unimaginable. Elephants are highly sensitive and their sense of pain, loss and grief is so much more than human beings and it has been documented again and again in so many video footage. We need to create a consciousness amongst Humans to be kind, respectful, considerate, compassionate and look to help animals who have no voices for themselves. We need to protect them, either by relocating them or making more land to be allocated for State Parks and Conservation Land. I am speaking for all the millions of humans who know the plight of these wonderful animals.
Thank You for your intelligent and compassinate consideration of your MAGNIFICIENT ELEPHANTS.
I’m very happay about your litter, and the sound should be banned mass
culling of elephant because thier have feeling like human beings. I hope all
poachers should be responed of your massege as well as the government .
The comments I see here are from the people who have no idea of the problems caused by too many elephants in a park or reserve. These people just think of the nice old elephant should be allowed to destroy the habitat for all the other animals and also for themselves. As far as these people speaking for all the people who know the plight of the elephant they are speaking about people who have no idea of the true problems. Shashi you can cry about the elephants, but you do nothing to help them . Do you plan to pay to have an elephant transported? Who is going to bear the cost in a country where people verge on starvation. Is Mr. Mugabe going to bring some of his millions of euros back from Switzerland to help the elephants. People who do not know the problem should KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT.
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