Zim to produce elephant biltong

Parks director-general Dr Morris Mtsambiwa said the project began last year after the Ministry of Environment and Tourism permitted the authority to experiment with the "resource".

"It is in our plans. We plan to start this year. We tried it last year and we found that we did not have the proper infrastructure for the purpose," he reportedly said.

Mtsambiwa said the authority would apply to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism for a quota of elephants to slaughter every year, after which it would build some abattoirs, the Herald reported.

He said slaughtering the animals for biltong would, however, not reduce the size of the elephant herd in the country, which has far surpassed the carrying capacity of the national parks.

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