Zimbabwe made $2.7 million from the sale of more than 90 elephants to China and Dubai. The money will be used to support conservation efforts.
Money from the sales will be used to support conservation efforts, said Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesman Tinashe Farawo.Farawo said the agency was having difficulty controlling the population in its national parks, and that proceeds from the sales, made over a six-year period, will be used for the upkeep of its remaining elephants."We are struggling with a ballooning number of elephants.
Saving elephants by crossing borders 07:26"We have a situation where most of our game parks use borehole water, and that needs a lot of resources. These are some of the costs that we are grappling when there is drought," he added.Read MoreTourism minister Prisca Mupfumira said the country presently has 85,000 elephants and it could only cater for 55,000, according to a local media reports.
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