The president of Botswana has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a political dispute. Earlier this year, Germany’s environment ministry suggested there should be stricter limits on importing hunting trophies. Botswana’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish Botswanans. He said elephant numbers had exploded as a result of conservation...
The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism’s Executive Director says poaching of rhinos and elephants in Namibia has decreased significantly over the years. This year, Teofilus Nghitila says 48 rhinos and eight elephants were poached.Nghitila says this year’s poaching statistics are better compared to 2018, when 84 rhinos and 27 elephants were poached. He attributed...
Police in the Zambezi Region apprehended a 37-year-old man found in possession of 24 elephant tusks during a joint operation with the Ministry of Environment and Tourism last night. The tusks are alleged to have come from Botswana, where the elephants were poached, and entered Namibia through the Batubaja Area in Linyanti Constituency. All 24...
The Brave Warriors are looking to get their 2026 Fifa World Cup Qualifying campaign off to a positive start against Equatorial Guinea at the Nuevo Estadio de Malabo in Malabo today. In so doing, it would mark a welcome upturn in fortunes for Collin Benjamin’s side who are winless in five outings. It will also...
Minister of environment, forestry and tourism Pohamba Shifeta says community projects aimed at empowering rural communities to be resilient against the effects of climate change should not become white elephants once government funding stops. “The onus is on the recipients, together with regional leadership, to ensure that these initiatives do not become white elephants. Let...
Angolan President João Lourenço Friday in Gaberone confirmed Botswana’s pledge to send 80,000 elephants to Angola to repopulate national parks, in what he believes that the move will attract tourists. Angolan head of State confirmed this at the beginning of official talks between delegations from the two countries, adding that the animals will be housed,...