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Published online 27 February 2007 |
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| doi:10.1038/news070226-7
Corrected online: 1 March 2007
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South Africa expected to propose elephant cull
Public consultation could suggest killing to control population.
As part of a package of measures to control its spiralling elephant population, South Africa is expected to propose an elephant cull in a document to be released on 28 February.
The number of elephants in South Africa's Kruger Park has risen to 12,000 from less than 8,500 since the end of the previous culling regime in 1994.
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