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Following disagreements with Germany about possible restrictions on the import of hunting trophies, Botswanan President Mokgweetsi Masisi has announced plans to cull 20,000 elephants. “As you know, in April this year, Botswana offered, with the utmost respect, 20,000 of our elephants to Germany,” Masisi told Thursday’s edition of Germany’s mass-circulation Bild newspaper. He said he had “so far received no response” from the German government. His country, like southern Africa as a whole, he said, is experiencing “the worst drought in 50 years.” “Our people are starving. The elephants are at r…

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