Keep elephants in the wild where they belong
by Paula Kahumbu with Andrew Halliday from on (#SAC0)
The plan to ship 18 elephants from Africa to zoos in the USA makes me wild. Zoos are no place for elephants
US wildlife officials are considering an application for a permit to import 18 elephants from the southern African nation of Swaziland to three American zoos.
It seems there are too many elephants in Swaziland. According to the website of one of the zoos that will benefit from the deal, "the large elephant population is negatively affecting the land and natural resources inside the parks, changing dense forests into barren landscapes".
