“Killing elephants for the sake of keeping their population in check has been authorized by the South African government in a statement released Monday, lifting a ban from 1994.” - Short News

“When the South African government decided to allow their share of the largest endangered land animal to be culled, it immediately raised a number of alarm bells. I can appreciate that the share size of an elephant requires adequate space to graze and roam. But with the continued loss of habitat, and the constant threat either for their meat; hunted and killed for other reasons or the highly prized value of their ivory tusks by some unscrupulous merchandise trader, this magnificent creature is surely in a precarious position.” - Antigua Sun

“The Humane Society of the United States and its international arm, Humane Society International, today applauded new regulations on elephant management announced by the South African government on Monday.” - African Path

“The South African government has said it will allow elephants to be culled for the first time in 13 years. ” - tehran times

“For the first time in 14 years, the South African government announced today it is advocating the killing of elephants as one way of controlling growing populations.” - AHN

“After the banning of so-called ‘canned’ lion hunting, the South African government is now training its sights on elephant-back tourism, animal rights activists said Wednesday.” - Monsters & Critics

“A herd of elephants and a church are caught up in the South African government’s efforts to redistribute land to black communities evicted under white rule and right one of the great wrongs of the apartheid era.” - International Herald Tribune

“The butchery of the elephants of the national park of Kruger, in Southern Africa, decided by the government the last year owing to a problem of overpopulation, will not take place. The South African government pushed back and froze the difficult decision making but it remains consequently to find other resolutions to avoid these massive butcheries.” - Portage

“The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, spanning the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the largest, and most ambitious effort in Africa to combine conservation, environmental protection, tourism and economic development. If successful, the Great Limpopo Park will be the world’s largest game park, a huge 3.5 million hectare area incorporating what is today South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park and the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe. In particular, it makes a huge difference for the Kruger National Park in terms of elephant management. The Kruger Park is facing a massive dilemma currently: how to deal with a very quickly growing elephant population. Its elephant herd has grown from 7,000 to 11,000 over the last couple of years because Sanpark, the South African government conservation agency, about three years ago took a decision to stop culling.” - All Africa