Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Are We Driving Elephants Crazy?
There's another a, what i woin to call it a policy that has been morally perplexing and i think very distressing for you. That's not poaching, but they call culling elephants in areas where it seems the elephant population has grown to a level that is uncomfortable for the human population. And this is a policy of systematically killing elephant groups in order to make room for land. Is there a competition? Simply for food, for land? What is the competing interest that takes place? Well, it's really for land and the but it's for food as well. When they are struck by a drought, both elephants and people will be hungry and thirsty. The crops
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