Botswana on Friday will hold its first major auction for trophy elephant hunting quotas since controversially scrapping a hunting ban last year, a wildlife official said. With unfenced parks and ...

In April 2024, Botswana’s then-president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, made headlines for his government’s threat to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the United Kingdom so that Europeans could try living ...

Botswana on Wednesday lifted its ban on elephant hunting, saying the population had increased and farmers' livelihoods were being impacted, in a move set to trigger outrage from conservationists.

CNN — (CNN) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies. ”Twenty thousand elephants for Germany, this ...

A fed-up mamma elephant charged a group of careless tourists who drifted too close to its babies in Botswana’s wetlands and trampled a blundering woman, nearly drowning her, wild footage shows. A ...

The incident also resulted in significant damage to the crew's personal electronics, with cameras and phones being wrecked, ...

Okavango Delta Okavango Delta, Oct 1: A mother elephant in Botswana’s wetlands charged at a group of tourists, including ...

GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana, home to almost a third of Africa's elephants, is considering lifting a ban on big game hunting, to combat what the government says is growing conflict between humans and ...