Accually in countries that allow hunting them, Ele's are doing very well. As for relocating them hearding them as you kind of suggested just isn't practical. In fact the cost of relocating them at all is very prohibitve.
As for cross breading , there are a number of differences between the two. Anyway I'm not sure about the indian ele, but I wouldn't worry about the Afraican elephant. Some of the countries allowing hunting at present have over 100,000 of them.
Namibia has some up north but they are among the countries that don't allow hunting.
I will be there in July, I will see if I can get some pic's for you.
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