Last year, Botswana legalized hunting of elephants as ‘there are too many of them’. The government officially lifted the hunting suspension.

More than half a year later, the country is going to auction licences to hunt a total of 70 elephants, in a bid to ‘end human-wildlife conflict’. This will be the first such hunt to take place since President Mokgweetsi Masisi lifted the five-year hunting ban last year.

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