She added: 'If it had been killed by a poacher there would have been no benefit to the local community.' The elephant already had a bullet wound, Peake said, which means 'the poachers had him in their sights.' Hunting industry spokeswoman Debbie Peake said: 'The income and meat from the hunt will make a huge difference to a community.' 'How does it being dead benefit our declining tourism ? Incompetence and poor leadership have almost wiped out the rhino population, and now this!'īotswana still has 130,000 elephants, but only a small minority are the world-famous big tuskers like the one hunted by Kachelhoffer.Ī second elephant weighing 90lb was also killed during a recent hunt.Įlephant hunts raised $2.7million for the country's economy last year. An elephant that tour operators constantly tried to show tourists as an iconic attraction. He posted on Facebook next to an image of the slain elephant: 'This was one of the largest if not the largest tusker in the country. The hunt was slammed by ex-president Ian Khama, who outlawed trophy hunting in Botswana before successor Mokgweetsi Masisi reintroduced the practice in 2019.
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