GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Botswana has issued 400 elephant hunting licenses amid fresh opposition from conservationists. International hunters pay up to $50,000 to obtain a license in order to hunt an ...

Dawie Groenewald is facing more than 1 600 charges related to rhino poaching, but his bail conditions allow for international travel.

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 ...

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 ...

The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council for Botswana issued a statement on Friday urging the allocation of a clear strategy and budget to combat the marginalization of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. With unfenced parks and wide-open spaces, Botswana has Africa's largest elephant population with more than 135,000 ...