# The National Council of SPCAs has welcomed a renewed focus on humane solutions to the elephant population crisis in the North West. This follows an investigation into the deaths of 75 elephants at Madikwe and Pilanesberg Game Reserves, between August 2024 and January 2025, due to starvation during severe drought conditions. Members of parliament’s portfolio committee on Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment recently visited the Game Reserves. NSPCA has also reaffirmed its opposition to trophy hunting as an elephant population control method.
NSPCA says killing elephants for profit or convenience is not conservation