An employment scheme for Moz.

Gives the poachers something to do for a year or two.

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Animal-rights appeasement? Wonder who is going to foot the bill for this token move?

Alf,

No to belabor this, but do not these articles need citations of dates and publishers?

From a casual observer point of view, it would seem that one objective of this park is that wandering elephants can wander, without the need to be micro-managed (contraception, etc.).

If poaching is controlled, my guess would be that if the habitat is acceptable and can withstand it, elephants would populate Moz by themselves without transplants, as it is not isolated from other elephant populations.

If there are too large populations in Botwana, Kruger, etc. it is from insufficient poaching/hunting/cropping.

Botswana Donates 500 Elephants to Mozambique




Sept. 3, 2004 � MAPUTO, Mozambique (Reuters) - Botswana, which has the largest elephant population in Africa, will donate 500 animals to Mozambique, conservationists and Mozambican officials said Friday.
Mozambique's national director of conservation areas, Afonso Madope, said the elephants would be transported by land to the Gorongosa National Park in the central Mozambican province of Sofala after they were captured.