A minister from the southern African nations speaks to Sky News as MPs prepare to debate a proposed ban on UK safari hunters bringing body parts of animals they shoot, like tusks, back home.
A Botswana minister has defended 'trophy hunting' and compared it to 'culling', saying it is a way of controlling wild animal numbers in his country and a source of income for communities. It comes as MPs prepare to debate a proposed ban on UK safari hunters bringing body parts of animals they shoot, like tusks, back home. Politicians from Botswana have reportedly threatened to send 10,000 wild elephants to Hyde Park so British people know what it is like to live with them.
'We cull them, we control their numbers - the numbers are just so explosive in Botswana, and they need to be controlled. Trophy hunting is one way of controlling these explosive numbers.' Asked if trophy hunting is the same as culling, he said: 'If you talk about ethics... you may try and differentiate them. 'If you go out and kill an animal, it is the same. It is hunting... we don't just go out and hunt and kill.
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