Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers
Many Europeans value the lives of elephants more than those of the people who live around them, the president of Botswana has said, amid tensions over potentialafter both countries proposed stricter controls on hunting trophies. The country’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, said it would help people to understandSpeaking to the Guardian on Wednesday, Masisi said: “I get the sense that they think these elephants are pets.
The UK government has committed to delivering a ban on the import of hunting trophies. A ban almost passed last year but was scuppered in the Lords after it “We are only human beings. Those Europeans, if they lived among elephants like we do, they would respond exactly the same way. Perhaps they might be more brutal, because they have a much stronger gun culture than we do,” he said.Human-wildlife conflict is on the rise in many parts of Africa, and threatening some species with extinction. Dozens of people are thought to be“Imagine … you try to gather your goats at night, when you stumble upon an elephant and it charges.
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