Zambia's Ministry of Tourism has issued a high alert for a herd of elephants that has crossed its border with Namibia and Botswana. 

Farmers in the Grootberg area have called on the government to urgently intervene and relocate elephants and lions, saying the escalating human-wildlife conflict is threatening both lives and livelihoods.
 

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani said that elephants roaming in the village of Mukwe, in the Kavango East Region, have become a concern for villagers, adding that children often do not go to school as they fear for their lives.

Seven elephants from Namibia are adjusting to a new home across the border in Angola after conservationists said the animals needed a new habitat to survive.

To share more on this, Elifas Bonifatius spoke to Romeo Muyunda, the spokesperson in the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism.

The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism's Executive Director says poaching of rhinos and elephants in Namibia has decreased significantly over the years. 

A herd of elephants forcefully destroyed the fence surrounding Zambezi Green Farm located in Sibbinda Constituency, resulting in significant damage to both the infrastructure and the maize crops on Saturday night.

Elephants have started destroying crop fields in the Zambezi Region again, leaving residents with little hope.

The jumbos destroyed crop fields at Wuparo, Balyerwa, Dzoti and Bamunu in the Judea Lyabboloma, Linyanti and Sibbinda Constituencies.
 

The villagers of Ghude in the Kavango East Region are surviving on wild fruits after elephants destroyed their crop fields during the 2021 harvesting season.

Ntelamo Batubaja, a self-subsistence small-scale farmer in Kambe, Zambezi Region, says elephants have continued to cause losses in his vegetable garden since 2020.