Government Tackle Elephant Culling Issue

The culling of elephants in the African regions is to take centre stage in the upcoming Cites (Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species) conference, the conference due to take place in a few months has put many countries at loggerhead with the Southern African countries like Tanzania once a supporter of the ban of ivory trade now asking to sell some of its ivory stock.
Bostwana, Namibia, South African and Zimbabwe want to continue in the trade of culling, the pcroposals by some of the countries include "(1)trade in hunting trophies for non commercial purposes" while Tanzania proposes "(2)trade in live specimens for non-commercial purposes to appropriate and acceptable destination" these proposal to the conventions by some of the countries involved demonstrate some form of humanitarianism in terms of financial gain, one of the chief reasons culling continues to take place.
The idea of culling continues to be a controversial topic, South Africa one of the countries involved in the controversy has blamed the rise in the elephant population and has suggested culling as means of preventing the rising growth, Clare Nullis of Associated Press said "The elephant population of 20,00 is growing at a rate of more than 6percent per year, disrupting the delicate biodiversity".
In a statement Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said "I would have preferred not to consider the option of both culling and contraception"
Wildlife campapigners have called for more humane methods to be sought, Rob Little of the World Wildlife Fund said "we recognize it is a management option and reiterate our view that all other options first be explored.
In an attempt to ban poaching, trade in ivory has been banned, this has drastically cut the amounts of elephants murdered by poachers, however while countries like South Africa suffer from overpopulation countries such as Kenya are suffering from a lack of elephants, the transportation of elephants to such countries has been considered but seen as inhumane and more stressful than death itself on the elephants, other options are still being debated, the issue on culling has gained a mixed reaction, Jennifer Nwankwo currently on a gap year in Kenya said "We seem to talk about elephant overpopulation and resort to murder, the issue of human overpopulation has been discussed but never once has genocide come into the debate" while Justina Aladetun said "We care too much about animal welfare while key priorities such as starving ,uneducated children in Africa goes on unnoticed."
The announcement from the convention is yet to be disclosed.