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Article: Van Schalkwyk weighs up proposals on culling.(News)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2006
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BYLINE: Staff Reporters
A final decision on South Africa's new elephant management policy, which could include culling, is not expected to be made before the end of the year.
Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the minister of environmental affairs and tourism, says he is studying proposals received from a panel of experts in August, and will be analysing what they have suggested before taking a decision on what to do next.
Van Schalkwyk would not be drawn on whether he would approve the controversial reinstatement of culling of elephants, or whether alternative means of controlling their population growth - so that they do not damage the environment at ...