“Elephants, while they may be endangered as a whole, overpopulate some areas. The alternative to culling a few individuals in these areas, which is what this young lady did, is to allow the entire herd to starve. Grazers require predators to keep their numbers in check. Without predators, they overgraze and starve. Adult elephants have only one natural predator: H. Sapiens. Removing that one species from the environment would doom the elephants.”
Wow, that was quite a trip. Bow-welding, recreational hunters/tourists are NOT elephants’ “natural predators.” Elephants have no natural predators that hunt them down on a large scale. Besides, elephants have been living well before Homo sapiens. They reproduce really slowly, so no need to “thin” then down either.