AR-News: (SA) People too bold in the bush

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news24.com
12/05/2004 12:13  - (SA)  
Elise Tempelhoff 
Pretoria - People have become too complacent around animals, and that, 
combined with tourists seeking an ever closer encounter with the bush, is leading to 
people being trampled by elephants. 
Dr Ian Whyte, senior scientific researcher in the Kruger National Park, says 
the "elephant problem" is actually a "human problem". 
He says recent incidents of humans being trampled by elephants happened 
because there are too many people on the western border of the park, and not 
because there are too many elephants inside. 
"People are encroaching in areas that formerly belonged to the elephants. 
Elephants must try to survive in a sea of people, while fences hamper their 
movement." 



full story:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1525813,00.html  



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