Exit Elephants.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1931, Page 6

Exit Elephants.

are fewer elephants in the whole of South Africa than are travelling in Great Britain in circuses, or eating buns from children’s hands in zoos. Fifty years ago, South Africa numbered elephants in their thousands. To-day, there are but fifty. Only a few years ago, a professional hunter was engaged to kill about a hundred elephants, which were constantly damaging farm property in the Eastern provinces. Now fewer than a dozen roam the Knysna Forests, and forty more in the Addo Bush are proving such a heavy tax on farmers’ purses and patience by stamping their tanklike bodies across valuable properties on their way to the waterhole, that the Union Government considers buying the elephants a right of way.