Zimbabwe’s government has announced plans to cull 200 elephants, in an effort to manage growing numbers of the animals amid an ongoing severe drought. It’s estimated that Zimbabwe is home to nearly 100,000 African elephants (Loxodonta species), but speaking in parliament on August 11, the country’s environment minister Sithembiso Nyoni said that was “more elephants than it needed”, the Guardian reported. As a result, the country’s wildlife authority, ZimParks, has now been ordered by the government to begin the culling of 200 elephants. According to ZimParks director general Fulton Mangwanya, …