HARARE (AFP) - US-Canadian actress Pamela Anderson on Tuesday called for Zimbabwe to stop the export of dozens of baby elephants to China and the United Arab Emirates in what the authorities say is a move to raise funds to run game reserves.

 

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what would you rather they be killed a certain amount of land will only support a certain amount of elephants if left unchecked they will uproot trees to feed on the leaves this in turn creates soil erosion 20 years later you,ve got a desert in the past elephants have always migrated in times of drought and lack of food with the encroachment of man they are able to do this and have to live on game reserves,when the numbers become too great the numbers have to be thinned this was previously this was done by culling entire herds surely it,s better to export them.