Zimbabwe Planning to Increase Its Sales of Baby Elephants, Sources Say
Forcibly separating baby elephants from their mothers causes trauma impossible to contemplate.
For opponents of Zimbabwe’s controversial plan to export scores of baby elephants, the stakes have just gotten higher.
More than 80 young elephants are being held in a capture facility in Hwange National Park, in Zimbabwe, according to sources monitoring the situation there. The sources report hearing of plans to send 27 elephants to Thailand as soon as this weekend, and 60 to China next week. It is also possible, the sources say, that these exports will be delayed.
Zimbabwe’s government would not confirm the reports to National Geographic, and it’s unclear precisely who the foreign buyers would be or what their plans might be for the young elephants, which range in age from two to four years.
Zimbabwe officials have acknowledged
