Favouritism?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/botswana-offers-20-000-elephants-to-germany-in-diplomatic-spat-over-trophy-hunting-13106965

He only offered us 10,000 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

[jno]

more people per square mile here, so they've allowed for the comparative lack of room.

 

[bookbinder]

Just don't send them in rubber boats.

[Old_Geezer]

Another idiotic gesture. One nation decides it doesn't want hunting trophies imported into it, and a different nation chooses to take offence muttering nonsense about it having anything at all to their option to cull or not, and coming up with such a suggestion as if it made any point whatsoever.

How do these folk get into positions of power ?

[tomus42]

If they think they've got too many elephants they should cull them.

It's nothing to do with us and our import restrictions.

[youngmafbog]

Well it is do do with our import restrictions.

What they are saying is that if no trophy hunters pay good money to hunt elephants that need to be culled then it will hit their local economies.  Firstly they would have to pay to cull them (they have no money) and secondly they will have to pay to carve up the carcass for food, thirdy the 'trophys' will just be binned anyway.

[jno]

agree with ymb. They are protesting about import restrictions. (They have previously noted that the British are fine with their own business of killing deer.)

The government of Botswana is, as I understand it, a comparatively  honest and uncorrupt one. What would you do if you were their leaader?

[tomus42]

//They are protesting about import restrictions. //

Of course. What I meant was that our import restrictions are none of their business.

If they've got an elephant problem they need to solve it themselves.

[jno]

surely if they ban a particular product from Botswana, it literally is Botswana's business?

[douglas9401]

Whoever can come up with an effective elephant condom will be able to name their price.

Only problem I can see is Jumbo struggling with the wrapper.

No need to shoot, eventually.

[jno]

the thing is, African nations face pressure (from elephant-free countries) to ban ivory in order to save the elephant population. Botswana is saying it's already got more than it can handle. I don't know how that balances out against the conservation argument, but maybe someone should be doing the sums.

[Old_Geezer]

Any country trying to flog a service or product that other countries don't want, is in the same position. You don't have a go at those you demand must buy.  Somewhere has an animal species population problem it's their job to sort it, not lash out.