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Botswana to Repatriate Elephants to Angola to Reduce Overpopulation

Mqondisi Dube

   CHOBE, BOTSWANA'¯ - Botswana, home to nearly half of Africa's wild
   elephants, is preparing to repatriate thousands of the giant mammals to
   neighboring Angola to reduce overpopulation and conflict with farmers.

   The country is home to more than 130,000 elephants, the world's largest
   population in the wild.

   But tens of thousands are refugees from Angola's decades-long civil
   war, which ended in 2002.

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