Africa-Press – Botswana. Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Friday called the United Kingdom’s bill that proposes to impose a ban on UK safari hunters bringing body parts of animals they shoot back home “condescending” and showing “resurgence of a colonial conquest.”
“I’d be abhorred, disappointed, and disturbed by, you know, the rejuvenation of what I perceive as not just condescending and patronizing, but real resurgence of a colonial conquest. It amounts to that. We are a democratic sovereign republic,” Masisi told the media when asked about his reaction, should the bill be passed.
Politicians from African nations have reportedly threatened to send 10,000 wild elephants to Hyde Park so UK nationals know “what it is like to live with them.”
Botswana Environment and Tourism Minister Dumezweni Mthimkhulu has said that “trophy hunting” was a way of controlling the wild animal population in the African country and a source of income for local communities, citing the data that elephant numbers in Botswana almost “tripled” to 130,000 in 2024 from 50,000 in 1984. Mthimkhulu added that the number of wild elephants that can be sustained in the natural habitat is 50,000.
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