Botswana's president has issued a bold threat to relocate thousands of elephants to Germany amid tensions over conservation practices.
Money from trophy hunting is said to support local people who will be less likely to poach the animals. Image: Nick Pawson
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has told German media that elephant numbers had exploded in Botswana as a result of conservation efforts.“Germans should live together with the animals in the way you are trying to tell us to,” Masisi told German newspaperBotswana is home to over 130 000 elephants – a third of the world’s elephant population.
in 2021, Germany is the European Union’s largest importer of African elephant trophies, and hunting trophies in general.
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