South Africa to Resume Elephant Culling

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 25 -- South Africa will lift a 13-year-old ban on using professional hunters to reduce burgeoning elephant populations, officials announced Monday, despite opposition from animal rights activists who call such killings barbaric and unnecessary.
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Craig Timberg

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