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Madikwe elephants: MPs slam North West officials over crisis | SA News

More than 1,000 starving elephants may have to be culled. Parliamentarians demand answers by tomorrow (Friday).

In a scathing parliamentary session on Tuesday, 10 June members of the Portfolio Committee on Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment accused North West officials of gross mismanagement and evasion of responsibility for the ongoing elephant crisis in the Madikwe Game Reserve. 

The crisis, years in the making, has led to mass starvation and death among elephants, extensive environmental degradation and a controversial proposal to cull as many as 1,200 of them.

The most damning testimony came from Douglas…

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