Europeans Care More About Elephants Than People, Says Botswana President

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europeans care more about elephants than people says botswana president
Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers Many Europeans value the lives of elephants more than those of the people who live around them, the president of Botswana has said, amid tensions over potential . Botswana recently threatened to send 30,000 elephants to after both countries proposed stricter controls on hunting trophies. The countrys president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, said it would help people to understand which is to the species including the experiences of subsistence farmers affected by crop-raiding by the animals.