I didn’t know there were too many elephants. What about taking one herd and putting it somewhere else?
Why can’t I be emotional? I’m a girl! :) And I like elephants and big colorful wild cats.
No problem with hunting per se, but I am just fond of certain animals and don’t get happy over shooting them.
There is a HUGE spectrum between PETA and the Japanese powdering bits of endangered species for sexual prowess teas. I’m in between.
Pray tell, exactly how would you go about moving an entire HERD of elephants against their will? You do realize that a Bull Elephant weighs in excess of 2.5 TONS, don't you? And that's just one animal.
They're incredibly dangerous beasts and will kill a human without a seconds thought. And a single herd of them can devastate the crops an entire village of human beings depend on for their survival.
Imagine if you will a herd of 30 or so rabbits, each one weighing in excess of 2,000 pounds intent on stripping you of your crops and there's absolutely NO way of fencing them out.
Still think they're harmless and cute?
Elephants are migratory animals. IOW’s they have to move to be able to eat. They strip an area of the available browse very quickly.
Elephants would also be very difficult to move. You need to sedate them and they could die in that process. The logistics of moving an individual are difficult. A herd would be mind-boggling.