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Imagine getting a text message from an elephant. What would it say? Perhaps, “Stop calling me Dumbo, and, no, I can’t fly.”? Well, it appears that we might find out pretty soon.
In the last two years alone, the Kenyan Wildlife Service has killed five African elephants from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy because they were trampling through human settlements and cropland. It’s a problem that will only get worse as humans encroach on elephant’s territory.
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South Africa, has seen great success with its conservation efforts. The national elephant population has risen from 8,000 to 18,000. However they may have been too successful:
some elephants will be deemed “surplus” and killed.
Animal rights activists are, as you might imagine, strenuously objecting, not because it’s bad policy but because the government is using thuggish tactics to accomplish the reduction.
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There are often multiple ways of looking at a problem, and lateral thinking is probably the only way progressive decisions by governments are ever made.
To get to that point, there is always a little bit of an odd transition: the brainstorming session, where there are no rules and any idea can be heard. Please bear with us, as we explore just one possible, yet radical solution.
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