President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi says that if the German authorities do not agree to his proposal to accept 20,000 elephants inhabiting the country, they will be fed to Botswana’s starving population, the Bild reported citing a video address by Masisi.
“When people are starving, we must feed them. […] I’m afraid we will have to feed some of those elephants or even all of them to the people,” Masisi said.
According to the African Wildlife Foundation, about 130,000 elephants, or one-third of all the elephants on Earth, currently reside in Botswana.
The Washington Post reported that the animals pose a problem for the country’s agricultural sector, frequently destroying farm crops.
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