South Africa's elephant population continues to grow despite challenges such as ivory poaching, human-elephant conflict, and habitat change.
They say that it is best to eat an elephant one bite at a time, which is a philosophy that the South African government is using with success to manage the country’s elephant population.
He says the theme this year is 'Evidence-based conservation – The success story behind South Africa’s elephant management lessons'. 'This seeks to encourage continuous engagement around elephant management across South Africa on the basis of evidence-based scientific data, which is at the backbone of today’s healthy elephant populations.
'There are a range of novel mechanisms that are being trialled in the region to mitigate this conflict. These include chasing elephants out of communal areas, fencing elephants out from sensitive areas, creating elephant barriers , closing human-made waterholes, setting up deterrents like beehives on fences, exploring crop insurances as well as introducing wildlife bonds.
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