JOHANNESBURG, Kompas.com-elephants in South Africa would have to enter KB aka family planning with regard to their population is increasing fast. Controlling birth rate this elephant to do, because they are already threatened populations, plantations of trees and other wildlife.
Unlike in other African regions where the population continues to decline as a result of elephant poaching and the loss of life-supporting environment in South Africa it elephants, elephant population continued to increase especially in the area of conservation. Therefore, the rate of birth of an elephant should be controlled.
As reported news agency Reuters, Wednesday (15/8/2012), in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South-East of South Africa, will continue the project that's been taking place more than a decade in which the elephant population is controlled with an injection of vaccines that would encourage the immune system that would block the sperm from the male elephant.
"Slowing the growth rate of the elephant will allow to achieve biodiversity such as the expansion of land without having to cull elephants," said Catherine Hanekom, ecological conservation area of Ezemvelo UWLL.
South Africa has only about 100 elephants almost a decade ago, but now the number of elephants has reached 20,000 elephants.
An increase in the population of elephants is even more daunting in Botswana where there are at least 133,000 elephants. Neighboring South Africa has barely lost trees and plants because it consumed and destroyed the elephant.
With a human population of about 2 million people in South Africa, then it elephants and humans supposed to comparison the highest one elephant to 14 men.
Meanwhile an elephant adult spend 100 to 130 kilograms of food in the form of leaves and so on. Make pepohanan sirna quickly.
Excessive elephant population will threaten food supply and land for human beings. As a result, elephants in South Africa must make family planning programs that by limiting the level of his birth.
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