These pictures are from the Makuti Hunting Area (administered by Zimbabwe Parks and Wild Life), the Rifa Education Camp (near Churundu and next to the Rifa Hunting Area), and Lake Kariba.

Myles McCallum of Harare, Zimbabwe, took some of the pictures in this gallery.

HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe is considering culling a ballooning elephant population that it is struggling to control, an official said Wednesday.
"The elephant population is increasing at the rate of five to seven percent annually," Edward Mbewe, spokesman for the parks and wildlife management authority, told AFP.
"We have about three options to consider which include culling, but the international world will not accept this."
....Besides culling Zimbabwe's wildlife, authorities are also considering contraception and translocation to control the rising elephant population.
But Mbewe said "translocation is very expensive and will not solve anything as we will transfer problems to another area."
The southern African country has an elephant population of more than 100,000 but has the capacity for only 45,000.
Mbewe said if the ivory trade ban is endorsed it will lead to conflict for territory between humans and elephants as the beasts grow in numbers....