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South Africa proposes culling elephants as a way to manage its swelling elephant population. At Kruger National Park, the jewel in the nation's game park system, the number of elephants has risen to around 14,000 since culling stopped in 1995 after an outcry from animal rights activists and the public. Last year South Africa postponed resuming a cull at Kruger after opposition by conservationists who said the practice, which involves rounding up and shooting entire family groups, was cruel. South Africa culled thousands of elephants in the three decades leading up to the mid-1990s because of fears their ballooning numbers would overwhelm the environment. Zoologist Professor Graham Kerly said that culling was not the only option open to the parks.
