Scientists Agree Re: Elephants

Thirteen of the leading elephant scientists in the world, meeting in Cape Town, agreed recently on a series of guidelines for government management of African elephants. (Link) They want major research on elephant management.

In January they had also met and agreed that there was no compelling reason to cull elephants to manage the population in Kruger National Park, South Africa (which has been debated for some time).

Bua News (All Africa.com) also reports that the more recent meeting saw the scientists point up the importance of African elephants to South Africa's biological diversity. "They added that excluding extinctions, elephant-induced changes to the ecosystem were potentially reversible."