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1. University of Pretoria zoologist Rudi J. van Aarde, who has called culls ineffective, said the new draft proposals reveal a shift in emphasis toward non–lethal management options.
2. "I don‘t think we are moving closer to culling whatsoever," said van Aarde, who was part of a scientific panel that consulted with wildlife officials on the plan, speaking from Pretoria.
3. Rudi J. van Aarde, a University of Pretoria zoologist who studies elephant habitats, contended that Kruger‘s size and long, narrow shape mean the animals are all the more destructive.
4. Elephants, van Aarde said, like to migrate seasonally along rivers, but because Kruger is oriented north to south and its rivers run west to east, the elephants‘ range is sharply limited.
5. Closing Kruger‘s man–made water holes also would encourage elephants to migrate farther in search of water, van Aarde said "Twenty–seven years of culling did not solve the problem," he said, speaking from his office in Pretoria, South Africa.