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5.Elephant Culling: The Tragic Mistake Behind Desertification

Ecologist Allan Savory once advocated the culling of large numbers of elephants because he believed that this would prevent the desertification of savannas. In the 1960s, he persuaded the Zambian government to implement an elephant culling plan, killing about 40,000 An elephant…The result is that desertification has become more serious. Savory calls this the saddest and biggest mistake of his life.

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