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- Berlin or Bavaria might not be the first place you think of when it comes to elephants, but they could soon be making their way to Germany if Botswana's president has his way.
Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany, after Berlin warned that it might limit the import of hunting trophies.
Botswana is home to one of the world's largest elephant populations - and conservation efforts have caused their numbers to swell to more than 130,000 in recent years.
The government has issued a limited number of hunting permits to keep their populations in check and to raise money for local towns. President Masisi told a German newspaper that a ban on hunting trophies could impoverish some Botswanans.
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Germany is dishonorable if it does not accept 20,000 elephants to Germany
Please please please bring them to Germany. Let them all march straight into the Bundestag.
😂😂😂
Bet those Germans won't know what to do when the elephants cross the Alps!
that time Hannibal took a left exit instead of a right xD
Masisi ante portas!
😂😂
We will think of something, are we not the great thinkers and inventors? 😂😅 🇩🇪 let them try us. Those elephants could arrive here hooting in deutsch instead of "Karibu hakuna matata!"
Wait, is he serious ? We Germans aren't able to coexist with a single bear or a bunch of wolves 😂😂😂
So if he insists, he and the elephants must consider the following:
1 Don't enter or cross our streets, especially our beloved Autobahn
2 Since elephants love water, we have lots of lakes, but they can't use public beaches here
3 Don't enter our yards without invitation
4 Don't poo everywhere you like to
5 And most importantly: Don't eat our trees
Germans love animals, especially when they are on leashes or well controlled behind fences.
😂😂😂
And with climate change, it would be hot enough for them to live there more comfortably temperature-wise :D.
i guess this why Elephants prefer Africa over Germany :)
Eliphants VS Wehrmacht challenge acepted.
You’re scaring the elephants already
I love the idea. Bring them in! Beautiful animals. We'll take care of them. ❤
They turn forests into desserts if you're not careful.
Bro you couldn’t take care of basic deers in your backyard
Few elephants are good to have around. A lot of elephants will cause problems.
you can't even coexist with wolves and bears, let alone elephants😂😂😂
Mean while, You can't even coexist with human from other nations 😂
"It's easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion on Botswana, but we pay the price."
Mokgweetsi Masisi said that in order to express dissatisfaction with the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), the country plans to donate 20,000 wild elephants to Germany and requires these animals to be free-ranging like in Africa.
People think it's easy to control that many elephants because they don't have them at their disposal
*Laughs in Hannibal
I didn't even know the earth still had 20,000 elephants on it wow im done
There's like 400000 elephants in the wild and 30000 are killed each year.
😭
@@arushanioshaka5600Botswana has more numbers,the 130000 is just an estimate.
Germany should accept the gift & redonate the elephants to places where they are still endangered.
that sounds interesting 🤔
send it to China
Too many ignorant people in thee comments. Botswana is doing a great job..........
Thanks for adressing the elefant in the room!
Have them fly Lufthansa. When not on strike mind you.
Oh I needed this in my life
Encouraging people going on about elephants being endangered to pay attention to actual news report. Conservation efforts have been successful and national parks are literally overcrowded. I live near Hwange in Zimbabwe and overpopulation is causing major ecological damage. Coupled with effects of climate change, it's not uncommon to come across elephant graveyards due to starvation and dehydration.
The Caliph Harun Al-Raschid sent Charlemagne an elephant as a gift in the early 9th century, signifying vastly improved Abbasid-Carolingian relations. Perhaps the current governments of Germany and Botswana could learn something from this medieval episode.
Hannibal's spirit lives on
Botswana has done great at conservation, but it's a small country. Grow up Green Party.
I am German, and imagine what would happen if a Botswan minister would tell Germany how many pigs to eat because they have a different point of view about cattle
They can hunt all they want. The law is about importing the trophies into germany, something that is well in there right to regulate.
That's not the point is it? If he told his inhabitants to not bring pig meat into Botswana, that would be comparable.
You didn't understand a thing, did you?
There are Germans who want to hunt elephants. Botswana has excess elephants and wants to make money out of then but the German government wants to make difficult 🙄
@@NyanyiC Belgium already banned hunting trophies and the EU is working out a similar ban. I don't seem to understand why we only talk about the plan of germany to ban these trophies, and again they can have as many tourist hunt them down as they want. The german government makes no demands about hunting them.
What a funny and beautiful report 😂 this made my day 🐘🐘🐘
Elephants are great
but not when they step on your toe.
@@stevem7945 or turn your forests into deserts.
How many elephants do you have by your house? Take at least 5 and then you can say how great they're.
@@Jezar7Better than you still.
is this for april fools?
Hannibal did it in the Alps.
It's not without historical precedent 😂
April 3rd today
@@ethimself5064:
It just got extended.
@@TheTrueOnyxRose Kool - Ya got any saved content - love to see
The Green policy that inspired is great for April Fools.. Funny how the Reds arrived as Greens, with the same people, when Communism collapsed.
Elephants immigration VISAs.
😂😂😂
Finally DW is getting to the real issues!
I kinda love this idea to seeing elephants in the wild in Germany xD.
Not that it would ever happen ofrourse..
African leaders are deeply involved in the animal parts trade in China. This is why they are not suggesting aid to move animal populations but rather to promote the easing of the animal trade market.
were the proff and what leader specifically
The Africa-wide population of African elephants was once over 26 million and it's now far fewer than 500,000.
Where did you get your figures from? What year was the population over 26million? Who did the counting?
And once upon a time there were dinosaurs too
And Wolf European wildlife was completely wipe out stop your hypocrisy
@@ambessaseway5594 wolves are a plague and a huge problem where I live, they are taking cattle owners to bankruptcy, so stop talking about what you don't know about
Who cares? Lot's of species went extinct, many long before mankind was even around.
Do you worship elephants?
LOL :)
The best joke EVER!
Botswana == The best!
Masisi and his besties (makula, maburu, ma bdp) are mad that they aren’t going to make no money. He limits hunting permits for his besties only. Now he’s crying because other countries don’t want to buy them, he should find another market.
Wena o bua lerete hela.
130,000 is just a tiny facttion of how many elephants were in Botswana before humans started butchering them. Small game hunting to put food on your table is a lot different than trophy hunters.. murdering something just for bragging rights is evil.
I don't think we should tell another country how to manage their resources.
source: trust me bro.
'The elephants do get eaten. This helps villagers to forgive them for crop damage.
@@normanwells2755depends on if you count wildlife as a resource or not. In my opinion those elephants have nothing to do with hunan drawn borders and therefore no singe country has a right to decide on if they can exterminate a species or not.
Unfortunately we live in a world where if humans do not see a cash value in something and it benefits them they don't care... To put it simply if they outlawed trophy hunting the local population wouldn't make money from the Hunter's... The government wouldn't get money from hunters and there wouldn't be any conservation. The people would sell the ivory and the government would have a wholesale slaughter to make way for more farmland to feed its people and possibly sell the ivory for its benefit as well. Remember that people are at the heart of every system and they manage the planet like a golf course... Hunting PAYS for conservation and without legal law abiding hunters there wouldn't be any elephants in many places. China wants that ivory for some crazy voodoo medicine, that's where our problem is.
Uhm... yes please?
If germany love elephant so much, why so hard to accept 20.000 elephants ? You love them right?
Sounds like a Game of Thrones plot ☠️🤣 Cercei would love it!
There’s no business like show business, that's for sure.
@0:40 There is no such thing as Botswanans.
The "Bo-" prefix makes it a country. A single person from the country is called a moTswana and the plural is BaTswana. So the line should have been: "could impoverish some baTswana".
Not in English.
Even if they can manage to airdrop 10 elephants per year, or smuggle a few through cargo ships, the timeframe is unrealistic.
I had to read the title again to make sure i read what i read. Germany send some our way 😂 Americans love elephants
Germans live Elephants too but there is probably not enough space in downtown Berlin to host 20000 of them
@@goenzoy712 could you imagine if he actually sent that many elephants? I wander if there is even that many zoos big enough worldwide
@@stevinharper3551Germany would collapse they don't have the land and resources to support a large host like that.
How are they going to Germany? DHL??
Hermes.
Is elephant can adapt the weather and climate in Germany/European region?
Why move elephant group from their original habitation land to Northern areas? Did human ask they want or non before this decision ? Maybe elephant can't live well in Europe.
It's obviously a joke, intending to highlight that it's their land and they can do what they want. Is Germany punishing the US for hunting deer or bears?
We will knit them colorful woolen sweaters for winter.😂
Funnily enough 20000 years ago the lanscape that is now Germany lost most of their elephants, Mammoths 🦣
Thank you, Botswana, for your humor. As a German, I appreciate that. I'm in tears now. That's too funny!😂🤣🤣🤣
That's a lot of Schnitzel!
Great... no longer do I need to visit the Kruger National Park in South Africa! 😅
A L'ATTAQUE!!
(hopefully not!)
how is it even feasible
Just get the elephants to the port of Carthage, load them on some triremes, then land them somewhere in southern Europe from where they can cross the Alps and invade Bavaria. Simple!
I'd rather they head for Rome
@@bigfootwalker5399 That could work, as long as they didn’t land in Italy, because the one etched-in-stone requirement is that they cross the Alps en route to their target.
@@rathersane Sounds pretty dumb and impractical
@@tranhuuluan7973 Rules are rules.
Last time there was a migration of elephants, was when Hannibal crossed the alps with a nr of elephants, on his way to Rome. History repeats itself
I don't understand . Is the quarrel because Germany does not want to hunt elephants in Botswana and the large increase in the number of elephants causes a problem for the population in Botswana?
Germany is considering banning the importation of trophies from big game hunting in the name of preserving endangered animal species. Botswana has too many elephants and issues hunting permits to keep numbers down and make money, including to German hunters. Botswana's president says that if other countries, such as Germany, ban importation of hunting trophies, it will deprive countries like Botswana of an important source of income. Botswana's president then said, we can only assume jokingly, that he would send 20,000 love elephants to Germany and they can take care of them. This was not a serious statement, but rather a dig at Germany trying to tell Botswana how to manage its resources (suggesting elephants shouldn't be killed).
The seriousness with which this DW report is covering this story is silly. No one is sending any elephants.
@@jtwil2191 Appreciate the quick version ty.
Other countries like South Africa and Tanzania allow elephant hunting. Botswana which currently has the largest elephant population has not allowed hunting since 2014, and wants to change this. The not so funny background is that poaching is on the rise since legal selling of ivory for countries which have accumulated stocks was allowed again a couple of years ago. And while the elephant population in Botswana is doing well, the global assessment is again Endangered since 2021, after having been downgraded to Vulnerable for 17 years. Most African countries can't protect their remaining elephants if the market for ivory keeps growing.
@@jtwil2191Botswana has too many PEOPLE. Maaaybe they wouldn't be starving if they'd ship some people to other countries instead. Or you know, birth control. Cause most of them don't bother with that.
You clearly are ignorant. Quickly google the population of Botswana and tell me if it differs drastically from any comparably sized European country
By the way botswana citizens are call batswana not botswanian
could they pass thru customs?
4:51 elephant leather is incredibly strong - just saying
🐘🌳
130,000 is a lot of animals requiring a humungous amount of food. Botswana is not particular blessed with vegetation, most of the country is desert. There are bound to be human animal conflicts. Lets not forget that the Europeans themselves drove the abundant Eurasian wolf almost to the edge of extinction - before they became rich on the plunder of colonization, able to send their excess population to the New World, Australia, South Africa etc. and are now able to preach morality to the rest of the world.
You have a different view and that's all right. If you think "they" are not right, ok, but they mean well. Tell them their mistake, as what Botswana did. But please lets all be one world.
"The ancestors of people in the west did bad things in the past, this justifies me behaving bad in the present"
@@tbn6453 Yea, we did not come much further.
@@tbn6453 crazy logic
lol botswana can't afford that
It's a declaration of war genius 🙄
There’s no place in west Africa today where you can find one single elephant, please let the president consider distributing the 20 thousand elephants to west Africa. Thank you.
he must think he is Anibal 🤣
How is the trophy Import related to keeping the Population of elephants in check???
If they have to „shoot“ 10 Elephants to keep the Population in check and germany only allows 5 imports, you still Can „shoot“ 10 elephants.
But you only can Sell half of them…
Why waste 5
Waere bestimmt ein guter garten helfer
🤣🤣🤣
Ivory has been controlled in international trade for a long time now.
Controlled hunting has also been used to aid in conservation efforts with success in some cases. When locals have an economic benefit for tolerating large destructive animals they have an incentive and resources to manage the wildlife more effectively such as hiring more anti poaching patrols. When humans are in conflict with local wildlife that only is an economic drain on them such as in property destruction, the interests of the humans tend to have priority.
As Botswana citizen I don't like this why would we send elephants to Germany for what 😢
Colonial master!
Old habits die hard, European countries never miss a chance to lecture other countries on their internal affairs, why Germany tool this decision unilaterally why they did not discuss the issue with Botswana government before making any remark.
Don't make empty threats. Makes you look weak. This must be Africa's problem. Maybe other African countries want some? Are we asking you to come here and regulate our wolf population?
It’s so tragic to see human beings killing innocent animals to make money. This is sick. Find another way to „make your living“.
Bet you are living in some industrialised country where there are plenty of jobs (like I do). But you don't know the other side. I've stayed some time on the countryside in Ecuador and seen that all young people become taxi drivers etc. Poor animals but also poor people.
Who should pay for taking care of those animals? Do you have any idea what its costs to keep them?
@@florianlinhart3782F the people, no excuse. They create their own problems.
@@gofha9945Every human should be pitching in. It's why we're here.
a ban on hunting?
so a corrupt african dingle berry is mad that poaching is being outlawed.
as usual. africa is still broken
Are they going on a Jumbo Jet?
Eliphants VS Wehrmacht. Challence acepted.
Elphants hands down. Wehrmacht dont stand a chance.
I really wanted this to be Joe Lycett’s doing.
I love that line...."the western flexing their muscle"
All Germany is saying, don't bring hunting trofees into the country.
adorable
The elephants are innocent.
So are sheep
Sheep, cows, chickens, pigs etc r domestic animals, not endangered species.
Make them in too food
Thank you dear Jesus for creating the magnificent elephant.
?? Elephants existed before Christianity or any religion bruh
@@sum9796 Mexican Jesus made elephants confirmed.
He got poisened by banana
He's mad the bribery money from the rich poachers will go away...
It's very sad the fate of these magnificent animals is in the hands of someone like this.
They should have UN/International Protection
Germany should accept the offer
Well it might be a good exchange elephants with the politicans which are so wise to tell the country what to do???😊
The elephants may be live along The great Rine river.😅
Botswanans can pound sand. If germany wants to ban the import of hunting trophies we dont need their permission to do so.
So It’s true what they say about your sense of humor
@@FetsumBerhaneDire I understand the elephant joke very well but the fact that the Botswanan president thinks he gets any say in the german import law is more hillarious to me than some empty threat.
@@noway2451 yeah it would have been better if he threatened German tourists and products in retaliation than making a point with jokes 🙄
Our communities are exhausted. We don't want them squatting around in Container camps besids our nice and clean business parks. We don't have the infrastructure. I mean, how big must a container camp be for, let's say 50 elephants? This doesn't work.
Poor animals
Meat's back on the menu boys!
The thought of elephant hunting is extremely revolting to most of us, but it's far more distressing for the elephants. The Botswana elephant population has yet to return to the pre-colonization levels, while human encroachment has expanded = reason why their government is feeling pressure to reduce elephant population. Allowing hunting is a very cost-effective solution, but it seems like there must be more humane methods, e.g., export to neighboring countries with appropriate habitat.
Pray beg which country in the region can afford the associated desertification that elephant overpopulation brings?
The highest concentration of elephants worldwide is in Southern Africa, Botswana and neighbouring countries like Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. So your suggestion is irrelevant in this instance.
@@zachariahkwada9988 All the countries you mention generate considerable revenue via tourism to areas occupied by elephants. Importing more elephants to those countries further increase tourist revenue, making your response irrelevant.
@@jlvandat69 The parks where populations are kept in-check are the ones that attract tourists. The ones that have an overpopulation of elephants lose their trees and eventually all other species that attract tourists. The elephants end up starving when there isn't enough trees left. Besides, intra-regional trade have been maximised under current international treaties forced on the region by those outside the region. Your point is moot.
Botswana is a massive country with a small population the problem is that a big part of it is a desert.
Send to scandinavia too , every country should share wildlife 😂
💀💀💀
Scandinavia is not a country.
We can send elks from Sweden to Botswana so they can sell elk poo to Germans (this is a real product sold to Germans visiting Sweden).
I bet they will be fine, given they send back 20k of the Botswana's people back.
Does he even have 20.000 elephants??
Botswana have over 130k elephants
@@Joel86543 Nice!
Botswana banned elephant hunting in 2014 and is now the country with the most elephants in the world, with 130,000 elephants. For comparison: South Africa is more than twice the size of Botswana, but only has 18,000 elephants and allows hunting.
It would be great if DW did news instead of sensationalism for a change. Restricting the import of hunting trophies in Germany doesn't stop Botswana from culling the elephant population if they deem it necessary. And the quote is based on a BILD interview, Germany's yellow press, so it is a good guess that BILD provoked that statement by misrepresenting the German policy debate and also quoted out of context.
You need US$30k for a license to hunt an elephant 🐘
😂😂😂 best joke of the year.
Why not shipping the excess to neighboring countries or even to India etc? But it’d be fun to see one or two elephants inside Scholz’s office
They did shift 8k to Angola, and India already had 27k elephants.
Also elephants in India or nearby countries are a totally different species, the environment is different as well.
African and Indian elephant have distinguish species.
If the German Lunatic Greens wish to change the rules they should bear the costs. Indian elephants are a different more docile and smaller species.
The Asian elephant is a different breed from the African. They may not be able to coexist together.
Botswana is landlocked. You has no ships only little fishing boats and not enough money in to even send 1
Ofcourse we dont have money to send elephants,our money is used for better things,like to provide free education,give university students an allowance,give the elderly allowances,for government initiatives that help people out of poverty,...
Why germans give lectures to other nations????
They tried military options but it didn't work.
@@WRITER1000why do other nations take German aid?
@@mannidennis1031 we didn't
@@mannidennis1031 ask those who did
Why can't Germany help Botswana economically to relocate extra Elephants to other african countries?
Why can't the German Greens take responsibility in Germany for their own daft policies. It would be immoral to foist the problem on poverty stricken African villagers, who would then have to migrate to Germany.
@@user-hd3pc6pn3gArme Bauern profitieren nicht von Elefantenjagd😂🤫
Why should Germany do that? Its not in our business. And we can decide what we want to be imported to our country on our own. This concept is called sovereinity
@@eligerus2622 sovereignty in Germany? don't make us laugh.
Germany should help themselves economically
Will 10x the amount of illegal immigrants be exchanged in return?
Note to the Algorithm: This is the only type of news I need! Germany, now put your money where your mouth is! 😊
Problems in Botswana almost certainly due to humans encroaching on their land. Too many Botswanans🙂
Btw half of Germany belongs to ussr
Imagine the size of the rump steaks !!! Delicious.
Elephant 🐘 are awesome
Germany needs to talk to them quickly by trunk call ;)
Stop being cruel to animals. God hates cruelty. Why blame the elephants?
A little late April 1 jokes