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Botswana President Threatens To Send Germany 20 000 Elephants

8 months agoThu, 04 Apr 2024 12:38:02 GMT
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Botswana President Threatens To Send Germany 20 000 Elephants

Botswana’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. The threat followed proposals by Germany to restrict the import of hunting trophies.

Masisi found the proposals inconsiderate of the situation on the ground in Botswana, saying elephants are now too many, and trophy hunting helps the country earn money while also keeping communities safe.

He proposed that Germans themselves try living amoung the wild animals. 

Speaking to German publication Bild, Masisi said :“We would like to offer such a gift to Germany.” 

Said Masisi in part:

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It is very easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world.

This is not a joke.

Germans should live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to.

We would also like to make such an offer to the Federal Republic of Germany. We won’t take no for an answer.

Botswana currently has some 130,000 elephants, an increase caused by conservation initiatives. Germany is one of the largest importers of hunting trophies in the world, and conservation efforts such as restricting imports would hurt Botswana’s revenues. 

In 2014 Botswana banned trophy hunting, but following an explosion in elephant numbers and pressure from local communities affected by the animals, it revoked the ban in 2019.

Botswana has the largest population of elephants in the world, followed by Zimbabwe, which has about 100 000. In Zimbabwe, elephants kill close to 100 people every year.

This would not be the first time that Botswana has given its elephants to other countries. It has previously given 8 000 elephants to Angola, and has also offered Mozambique, to try bring the animal population down.

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