Drought is causing food shortages across southern Africa - with Namibia set to kill 700 wild animals to feed hungry people.
Zimbabwe will cull 200 wild elephants to feed communities facing severe hunger during the worst drought in four decades, wildlife authorities have said. The drought has wiped out crops in southern Africa, impacting 68 million people and causing food shortages across the region. Experts say the below average rainfall has been caused by the El Nino climate pattern.
' Hwange, in the country's arid west, has more than 45,000 elephants but now has the capacity to sustain only 15,000. There has been increasing competition between humans and wildlife for food and water in Hwange. The country's environment minister Sithembiso Nyoni told parliament last week that she had given the go-ahead for the culling programme to take place across the country.
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