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When culling best serve elephant welfare

As elephant populations rise in increasingly fenced and climate-stressed landscapes, conservationists face a difficult ethical dilemma: is it ever more humane to cull than to let elephants live? This talk examines the issue through a consequentialist lens, shifting the focus from individual suffering to the collective welfare of elephant populations, ecosystems, and human communities. Drawing on recent case studies and legal frameworks in South Africa, it challenges the assumption that culling is inherently unethical, and highlights that - under certain conditions - proactive, humane culling may prevent greater suffering, preserve biodiversity, and safeguard both elephants and people.