Parts of South Africa and Botswana are over-run with elephants, and they are killing off other species. The IUCN says the African population of more than 400,000 makes them endangered. Is it time to admit that, thanks to the number of humans in southern Africa, there are too many elephants? News editor Ben O'Rourke talks to Ron Thomson, Herman Els and Pieter Nel.
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