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  • ‘Won’t Take No for an Answer’: Why Is Botswana Threatening to Send Herds of Elephants to Germany?

    04/04/2024 2:49:56 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 44 replies
    Euronews ^ | 04/04/202 | Rebecca Ann Hughes
    Home to the world’s largest elephant population, Botswana has already gifted 8,000 of the animals to Angola and offered another 500 to Mozambique. For the second time this year, Botswana has threatened to send thousands of elephants to Europe. In March, the southern African nation warned it would fill one of London’s parks with the animals. Now, the president has said his country will send 20,000 elephants to Germany. The warnings have been sparked by a diplomatic row as the UK and Germany mull the idea of stricter limits on the import of hunting trophies amid concerns over poaching. Why...