South Africa is now making it legal for elephants to be killed. It has been illegal to hunt elephants for the past thirteen years. They have decided that it will help lower the elephant population by raising the ban. Many animal rights activists are angry and upset. Activists are threatening to boycott and plan protests.
When hunting elephants was popular in the early 1900's, it nearly killed off the elephant population. When it first became illegal, in 1995, there were 9,000 elephants. It has now risen to over 20,000 elephants. There is so many elephants that many crops and trees are trampled. There is not yet a specific date to when the ban will be lifted.
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