Namibia licences elephant cull

by LotusFlower | September 2, 2008 at 07:46 am

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Environmentalists are angry at Namibia's decision to allow a cull for of elephants for 'trophy hunters'. Some including the government of Namibia feel the herds can sustain the loss but with money to be made from big game hunters some feel that this is the driving force and the elephants extinction or not comes second.

Africa’s few remaining desert elephants are facing extinction after the Namibian government issued permits for six breeding bulls to shot by trophy hunters.

The government claims the herds can sustain the slaughter but Johannes Haasbroek, operations director of Elephant-Human Relations Aid, says the issue of the $40,000 dollar permits to big game hunters will be catastrophic.