In Sa they are allowed to walk around.... on any FARM... villages, towns and cities are free of wildlife (other than in zoos).
For that matter there are HUGE debates over if the national game reservation agencies will allow the hunting (and killing) of certain elephant families in reserves, because of overpopulation...
Personally i think its a good idea... it will be very well controled and will bring extra funds to protect our wildlife. Other people have a HUGE problem with that, since you cant jusk kill one... you have to kill the whole family, otherwise they go "crazy" and often the family will kill the young if one of the parents die... the remaining parent becomes very agressive and destructive. So its down to an issue of killing 3-6 elephants at a time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
on the other side... if you dont do it.... elephants will have this effect on the environment within 10 years....
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even worse just to maintain a healthy environment full of elephants, i recon its wise to sacrifice 1000 in order to maintain 20 000.
they cute and very affectionate animals... and also the land mammal with the smallest eyes in comparison to the size of their bodies.
