The Southern African subpopulation of African bush elephants is doing great, for now. Despite poaching challenges, the region is now home to more than 80% of the world's savannah elephants, and the subpopulation is not threatened by extinction.
It is a massive success story. There are, however, challenges. In South Africa (and many of the other southern elephant range states), the local elephant population is exceeding the natural carrying capacity of the available habitat. This means the elephants gradually destroy their habitat in desperate search of food. If this is allowed to go on, habitat
