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Southern African nations that depend on trophy-hunting revenues to boost their economy and enhance wildlife management efforts may face devastating impacts should a proposed bill...
SUE REID: An imposing professional hunter, Randy Motsumi has overseen the killing of 48 tuskers in Botswana during the three years since the country lifted its ban on big game shooting.
A professional trophy hunter killed the biggest tusker elephant in Botswana with a single shot. Leon Kachelhoffer paid $50,000 to hunt the elephant, which carried 200lbs (91kg) of ivory.
Botswana trophy hunting season opens after Covid hiatus AFP 2 hrs ago © ROBERTO SCHMIDT Trophy hunters have been issued licences to kill nearly 300 elephants Botswana resumed its controversial trophy-hunting season on Tuesday, a government official said, after the exercise was halted last year by the coronavirus pandemic. Licences have been issued to kill 287 elephants, the biggest category of animals, according to the authorities. The landlocked southern African country boasts the world's largest elephant population, estimated at around 130,000. In 2014, it initiated a blanket ban on hu...