Part 4. You will hear a zoology student giving a presentation on the process of moving wild elephants to a new reserve, known as translocation.
First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40. For my presentation today, I want to tell you about how groups of elephants have been moved and settled in new reserves.
This is known as translocation and has been carried out in Malawi in Africa in recent years.
The reason this is being done is because of overpopulation of Overpopulation is a good problem to have, and not one we tend to hear about very often.
In Malawi's Majeti National Park, the elephant population had been wiped out by poachers, who killed the elephants for their ivory.
But in 2003, the park was restocked and effective law enforcement was introduced.
Since then, not a single elephant has been poached.
In this safe environment, the elephant population boomed.
Breeding went so well that there were more elephants than the park could support.
This led to a number of problems.