Zimbabwe's Elephant Tracking System
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Zimbabwe is full of elephants and conflict with villagers is growing. A new approach hopes to help
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Zimbabwe 's elephant population is estimated at around 100,000 , nearly double the land’s capacity.
Conflicts between humans and wildlife such as elephants, lions and hyenas killed 18 people between January and April this year .
The new system of tracking elephants wearing GPS collars was launched last year .
It aims to prevent dangerous encounters between people and elephants, which are more frequent as climate change worsens.
Hwange holds about 45,000 elephants, but parks officials say it has capacity for 15,000 .
Project officials acknowledge a huge gap remains.
In a recent collaring mission, a team of ecologists, vets, trackers and rangers identified a herd.
A marksman darted the matriarch from a distance.
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