An elephant stood on its hind legs to reach over the heads of tourists and rip a branch from a tree overhead in Zimbabwe.

A young elephant managed to get itself stuck between two tree stumps at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe. But the rescue did not go as smoothly as anticipated.

It could also inadvertently increase human-elephant conflict, said Elisabeth Valerio, safari operator and conservationist in Hwange Park, Zimbabwe. The trauma of family members being killed can ...

Meanwhile Elisabeth Valerio, a conservationist at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, which has a huge numbers of elephants destined to be culled, claims: 'The trauma of (elephant) family members ...

They know practically zero about the pre-independence Zimbabwe. To them colonial Zimbabwe is a phantom. Post-independence Zimbabwe to and for them dropped from heaven like manna. Frankly I have no ...

In late August 2024, Namibia announced plans to slaughter 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants—a number later raised to a staggering 1,002 ...

namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia, making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations in the world. According to Reuters, the culling also formed part of ...

They have also claimed that they have more than enough elephants (in Zimbabwe’s statement it’s "too many elephants”) and that the cull will alleviate ongoing human-elephant conflict situations.