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When I went to Zimbabwe and Zhaire in like 2002 our guides were telling us they also worked for the government and would regularly go out by helicopter to cull thousands of elephants because they were overpopulated like deer are here and would eat everything and starve themselves out.

They then cut the ivory and burned it in massive bonfires to stop it from being collected and sold on the market since that was illegal.

After watching all the nature shows here about how endangered they were it kinda made me wonder wtf was going on.

*not thousands in one trip, at most like a hundred or so iirc but it was something they regularly did during the year