Quote Originally Posted by Zwaplat View Post
It's not the elephants that are the problem. It's the humans taking up the space that the elephants used to occupy. No, the humans don't have the right to do that.
If you keep the elephant population in check because 'they cause a lot of damage', why don't you keep the human population in check as well? They do a lot more damage, on a seriously larger scale. We even manage to litter space with waste...
Is it? I believe there are more elephants in parts of Africa than have ever been seen before, and Elephants in areas they did not normally reside in.

The Human population is kept in check, to a degree, by war and famine and natural disasters and etc etc etc Although we (the west) kinda messed up the natural balance in Africa when we vaccinated every one against everything.

My point is, that currently there are few things that have any impact on the elephant population because they are so heavily protected. This is not natural.