Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany • FRANCE 24 English
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- The president of Botswana has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. His comments, appearing in German media, came in response to the German government's suggestion that there should be stricter limits on importing hunting trophies. Botswana has struggled to deal with a huge population of elephants, and its president assured that his threat was "no joke." Monte Francis explains.
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Botswana: We'll send 20,000 elephants to Germany.
Whole world: What about us?! 🥺
elephants should be perfect in Asia minor or India...I doubt in europe
@@johncane2304they will adapt. we used to have real big harry ones running all over
Just wondering, who will pay for the relocation of the Elephants (in this offer)? Germany or Botswana (or both)?
@@Winston-lf7sbunderrated comment🫶
I'm sure by whole world you mean Florida
Just tell the Germans the elephants are migrating and they will be sure to accept them with open arms.
No, the elephants arent muslims… they only take muslims in
And eat the poop!
The rest of Western Europe and eventually the States will follow suit
We can't even accept bears and wolves are still a much fought over topic. Population density is much different in Europe as for example in the US or Candada. Europe is packed tight so much so we struggle to reintroduce native species bigger than a cat. Elephants woul be a a game changer 😂😂Tbh I think they would be dead within a week.
Lol, these woke Germans couldn't even handle the refugees influx after Angela Merkel opened EUs gates in 2014, and you are expecting them to handle elephants ? 😂
These jokers don't even have an independent foreign policy, they have to permission from big daddy USA to even take a piss.
I want Botswana to follow up on that threat because it would be one of the funniest malicious compliance between two countries in history.
Isnt 20,000 grandiose? He'd need a freight ship the size of a supertanker just to move 200 of them
Id like to see Mokgweetsi Matsisi manage to get just 100 elephants through the Atlantic by regular freighter. Or, he could forget about Germany & just give the World Wildlife Fund a call. In fact, theyll be calling _HIM_ once they get news of his offer to Germany!
🐘🐘🐘☮️
"Unable to ignore the elephant in the room". Damn!
Bottom feeder news technique, they must have Cliche 101 class at journalism schools now.
Europeans like the idea of elephants but don't want to deal with the dung.
100 percent
Africans: But the elephants destroy our crops.
Europeans: Not my problem.
Africans: So, I have to shoot them.
Europens: Noooo! You can't! Learn to live with them! They are a part of our nature.
Africans: But they destroy our crops.
Europeans: Not my problem!
Which Europeans? Politicians or the people? Because these two have vastly different views.
@@Kriegs-meister Both
@@chrisbennett6260 both have vastly different views, so nope.
Please Botswana. Make the same offer to Portugal or Spain. Having 20 elephants would be great to attract tourists to rural areas away from the coasts.
20000
@@SupaReusright 😂😂😅
You can't manage them
Elephants can become a menace to rural farm communities you know. They're very big and strong, capable of decimating farms and villages if the wild enviroment can't support their food demand.
and unlike boars they're even more resistant to traps and small firearms.
Humans have been moving into their territories out of greed.
the same Germany has been killing wolves and breaking pigeons claiming to be culling when others are culling the animals it's all bad.shame on you...
Dude this is different like elephant were endangered and less harmful than any of those animals. This is not about Germany it's about the consequences of protecting animals that need protection
Germans like to kill bears
@@meruem6995ujjoooo elephants are not endangered in Botswana. In fact they have an unhealthily large population.
On the other hand wolves are absolutely endangered in Germany. The only reason they're not considered endangered is because Germany has levied to have their range include multiple other countries. But if you look just in Germany, they are basically non-existent
@@meruem6995ujjoooo bro, there is a literal overpopulation of elephants in Botswana. this thing has become a pest, they destroyed crops and houses. Elephant are dangerous in this case
@@meruem6995ujjoooo130,000 is not endangered you moron.
Germany should at first consider growing its forests back to the state of prehistoric times and reintroducing bears and wolves. A German saying is "don't throw around stones, when you are living in a glass palace". But the German Government had no problem in shooting Bruno the Bear in 2005 when it was the first bear to remigrate to Germany after more than a century of bearless German forests.
We don’t talk about Bruno.
@@Pandacalifornia Yeah you don't talk about the most famous German too, sorry Austrian painter who somehow became German coz why not😂
@@rohitsawant5805 No it’s a Disney reference
@@rohitsawant5805 Say what you will about the Austrian Painter, but in Germany under him, it was illegal to hunt wolves. They were under state protection.
@@patriot9487Yeah and based on what’s going on in the world, I don’t think that’s all he was right about.
Conservation entities can assist Botswana give some of the elephants to other African countries where elephant populations have been severly reduced. These countries can then repay Botswana over time for those elephants.
I believe that would be a better approach to the overpopulation problem rather than trophy hunting.
Agreed why can’t they just spread them out more? All over Africa.
lol
@@plforeal4392 Not all of Africa is the type of environment for elephants. In some places, they'd be an invasive species, in others, unable to survive in the wild, and in many cases, dangerous to the local population, both human and animal. It would be like one part of the U.S. had an overpopulation of Wolverines and so we spread them out over the whole country, not caring that many parts of the U.S. have never had the animal and it could end up outcompeting other creatures that fill its niche.
@@morgant.dulaman8733no offense but wolves and buffalo were all over the us before y’all started killing them
Because other African countries don’t have nature conservation at hand. The Elephants will be poached out within a few months.
Take the 20 000 elephants , and give them to Ukraine , 20k african elephants charging over the trenches toward the Ruzzians
It worked for Hannibal
Can they withstand bombs?
@johnsitumbeko732 *checks notes* they're weak against fire and other animals i.e pigs, mice,
@@Veganmilkdrinker Pigs no problem, mice not so much.
@@Veganmilkdrinker give them giant blindfolds and earplugs
"The elephant in the room" joke is a nice touch from the writer 👍
I have seen a lot of people saying "just spread them around Africa."
Guys, you know Africa is a continent, right? One with massively different climates and local environments.
Even in places where there are elephants already, it should be noted these have often already adapted to their specific environments. With that in mind, Botswana's elephants are adapted to their local environment, and it can't be taken as a given they'd perform well or mesh with other environments even a few hundred miles from where they live now. Even if they could, that's another competitor for resources and possibly a danger to local humans and animals.
And before someone says "well, it's the animal's territory anyway" or something, first of all, I invite you to find a wild animal that's native to your region, preferably a large one that can get aggressive from time to to time, and invite it into your house, or even let it take over while you can locate. Then you can talk about why others can't develop areas for their benefit because it would hurt or inconvenience local animals. Second, consider the size of the elephants, their capacity to clear entire acres of foliage (sometimes including farmland people need to live). Consider their ability to total vehicles and destroy buildings out of rage, hunger, curiosity, or sport. Consider the sheer nightmare male elephants turn into during musth. Maybe then, you can understand why local governments would be concerned about importing them, let alone governments where the nations are still industrializing and dealing with large poor populations as well as unrest among local groups for reasons ranging from politics and religion to ethnic tensions and more. You might also then understand why curbing the population with hunting, including trophy hunting (which often provides meat to the locals) is an option that said governments find appealing.
Life isn't a Disney movie, and sometimes you have to choose who or what suffers so that others can prosper, and most sane people tend to prioritize human life over that of animals, even if people who don't have to live with said animals then get offended on the animals behalf. And lest anyone say I don't care or I hate them, I love elephants, but I have to consider what life is like for people who live around them before casting a moral stance on how some governments deal with their presence.
Send that novel to the botswanian president because he's the one whose claiming he's going to send 20k elephants to a country that's environment couldn't possibly host them
@@whiteox8903 Yes. As a hyperbolic threat to make a point like what I described.
The title sounds like something from The Onion.
Botswana is shipping thousands of elephants to germany???
LOL :).
The best joke in a while!
Will there be wild elephants in Europe in the future? Exciting!
Gotta allocate a whole lot of space for them. *A LOT*
Yeah, its all fun and games untill those elephants wrech havoc on your crop fields and cause heavy losses to the farmers.
There were elephants in Europe in pre-historic times and Mammoths and extinct species of the modern elephants were the norm all over Europe.
The European elephants were hunted by Neanderthals and Sapiens, some being the tallest Elephants ever and some being Dwarf Elephants, with the last ones remaining in Sicily and Malta.
Sicilian and Maltese Adult Dwarf Elephants were around 3ft in size.
All elephants eventually died out in Europe.
Too cold in winter
Why can't they just import those to zoos in countries who don't have elephants in their zoos?
Because those zoos are in poor countries.
They can't handle every climate...obviously
Hannibal Barca be like:
Europe had elephants too.
All gone.
Lies.
Lies, you never had nothing asides domestic cats in dogs.
Yup they were all hunted down, so why can't they do the same?
@@fatfarmers7360 😂😂😭😭🤏🏿🤏🏿
@@fatfarmers7360no 😂
The elephant is the room here is...
I'm sure that Gretta Thunberg would be happy to house and feed 200 of them at her place. Now there is only 19,800 that need a new home.
Let's be realistic...they could not even export 1 elephant to Germany.
How can I donate to make this happen?
I am not eager to see elephants being shot...but just what does Plan B look like for Botswana otherwise? 130,000 elephants? In a country of only 2.3 million? That is a lot of elephants. How much are YOU willing to pay to keep them around and hunter free? I don't imagine anybody here would be willing to bet their lives as the Batswana
people do...
Don't you know african are worth less than elephants? How dare you compare environment polluters to innocent animals.
let the elephants out then lead them to a good country.
Also remember Botswana is a dry region
The plan is to actually sell em to zoos all over the world, just like what china did to their pandas
Plan B is the government goes in and takes out 20 to 30,000 and leave them to rot... that's the reality of the situation
Trouphy hunting is bad cruel however, this issue is just another "Shut up call" by Africa for free preaching. Germany can use opportunity and take elephants or stop free advice.
It's Germany's right to impose restrictions on hunting certain animals for THEIR people. Botswana is just unhappy they don't have German business.
@@jeremyknight1927 Germans are the 3rd largest game hunters in Southern Africa.
They don't take an elephant until its on it's final set of molars and near starvation.
The law would only be for GERMANY, they can regulate their own country is they want. If anything, it's the Botswana government that stuck its nose in another country's business.
If it weren't for trophy hunting many animals you love would be extinct
Trophy hunting is a necessary evil that must be done. It funds animal reserves more than a charity ever will that's the harsh truth. It pays for the guards against poachers, the land, the food and efforts into making sure animals don't go extinct
The Elephants Will Fly using their Ears To a Habitat Near You. Germany Should take the Offer, That's 20,000 Out of 130,000 Elephants... Let's Not Forget 10% for the Big Guy 🐘
The Rumbling is happening...
really gives the line "still wandering in the deep mist" a wholly (woolly, even) different context. at least they didn't send in the geese.
Elephants are not pets. They are wild animals. There's hunting also in the West. How's hunting wild pigs in Europe to control its population different from hunting African elephants that are becoming a pest. Environmentalists who care more about animals than humans are not really environmentalists. They are ideologues. Remember, human beings are also part of the environment.
Are you really going to compare elephants (an endangered species) with... pigs??? If you look at European endangered species, all of them are protected.
The problem here is that even though they're endangered globally, there is ONE region (Botswana) where they thrive. So yes, we should be applauding and rewarding Botswana for taking care of them, and eventually relocate some elephants to other parts of Africa (at western/international expense) instead of these childish annoucements (on both sides).
Did you really just write that? All the genocide y’all have committed globally and you are saying environmentalists care more about animals than humans? The High IQ group strikes again.
Put up fences and protect your people, you have the diamond money that can pay for that. There is also no comparison also Because nobody is making export trophies and supporting local communities from pigs.
Dwag you are a pest who is stealing their land
@@benoitbvg2888which other parts of Africa? Botswana's neighbours have enough elephants of their own and they certainly don't want a similar crisis on their hands as that of Botswana, where the west hinders their animal population control efforts at the expense of the livelihoods and safety of the human population.
Will Babar rise to occasion and form his kingdom of Celesteville from large swaths of land in Botswana ?
Emotional people will never be more qualified than a trained game biologist
That’s an hilarious threat
Dang reporter beat me to the "elephant in the room" pun
Declare them to be religious and economic refugees and they'll have to accept them!
What is this Age of Empires?
Wololo.
Or *amplified Gregorian chanting* if you played the sequels.
Until the time liberals take over.
I have not played the video yet but damn that title is wild
As a German citizen you just have to be ashamed of this government!
I am, but for different reasons. Mainly there lack of investment in the own armed forces.
Perhaps you germans could stop being the vassals of Americans for starters. It is difficult to respect someone when they're someone's b*tch. @@danielwhyatt3278
That’s a hell of a threat.
I wish this was as bad as world news got!
I'm guessing there isn't some type of IUD for elephants.
Who can speak Elephant to help them(referring to the Elephants) understand what is going on and why,hence the title?
I mean sounds cool, but the temperature over there is really cold and African Elephants are use to warm climates.
LOL :)
Botwana must be proud!
Great idea, great joke and other countries should help this succes be even bigger :).
1/3 of elephants in one country is insane. Spreading them throughout Africa makes more sense rather than supporting poaching or shipping them to Germany. A pipeline to Asia as well. Send them to PA i love elephants 🐘
Same with India and tiges. Maybe there's a logical reason for this.
99.9999999% of pandas are in China.
@@TanmoyBiswas There are wild animals in India because unlike Europeans, Indians didn't kill these animals to extinction.
The biggest set-back and destruction to Indian flora and fauna happened during colonial times.
Europeans have no respect for nature. They destroy nature everywhere they do. Europe has no biodiversity, no real forests, no wild animals. All of these were destroyed by Europeans.
Spreading them to africa? Why don't we spread them to europe? Then the europeans will learn to peacefully co-exist with the nature, just like they advise africans to do.
They would be poached in most African countries
How many people will the average elephant feed? There is a LOT of meat there, has to be something on the order of 25,000 quarter pounders per bull.
How many?!
So botswana wants to give Germany an army's worth of the world's second largest land based herbivore, right behind, you guessed it, another elephant. Maybe rethink it a bit??
Morals are difficult once you have to execute population control. Most people don't understand that culling animals can and must also be a tool if preditors have gone extinct in an area. Elephants are mostly prey as calves. For a country with little Hyena or lions population keeping the elephant numbers in check is only by droughts and tourism does not like sad and dying animals by dehydration so they keep ponds with water all year round, which encourages elephants to mate. Culling might be necessary or allowing droughts to take its course. It should not be done out of cruelty or the fun of it however. Educating tourists and policy makers of the necessity and nature of things is sometimes impossible. We are not used to the harshness of nature anymore.
Sending the elephants to other parts of the world makes sense. Why didn't they think of that in the first place
As a Brazilian, I would love to have elephants in my country but my friend who is a biologist explained to me that it would be a disaster to our local wildlife 😢
They will disturb the balance of the local ecosystem endangering other species. They eat about 100kgs of leaves everyday, destroying trees and everything in their path. Elephants also don't really have any predators.
No natural predators to hunt them down as population control.
Sure as long as you give them money for the transfer
Am from Ghana , you can send us some . But this bafoon wants to fill his pocket with trophy hunting .
They should send them to areas where they’ve gone extinct locally, or they could start a Pleistocene rewinding project starting off with smaller enclosures and move on from there
In Kenya on honeymoon our guide complained constantly about the overpopulation of elephants and the damage they caused. He wanted to lead hunters. I don't understand the mentality of trophy hunting though. It's literally like walking into a safari park enclosure and shooting an animal. There's no skill required. I understand the skills required to track, find and kill something like deer or antelope which can then be eaten but driving up to a heard of giraffe and elephants seems like something fat millionaires would do to make them feel big and powerful.
I don’t know why, but something like this is just intrinsically funny to me.
Can you imagine a bunch of elephants running around a construction site?? Lol oh goodness
Yep, too many elephants. But they still took my elephant skin belt, made from an elephant that died naturally on a reserve.
The EU should ban de import of any kind of hunt trophies or wild animal skins andbones for that matter. There are many countries in Africa where elephants have bern exterminated by poaching and hunting, and as a fundamental piece in the life chain they should be reintroduced, so Botswana could do business with those countrues and export their excess elephants.
Assuming those countries want large herbivores that require large acres of land to feed, and whose males have a yearly tendency to go insane from hormones and lash out at anything that isn't a female of its own kind...and in some cases, sexually assault rhinos.
No, I did not make that last one up.
Which African countries are those
Why not terraform Mars and send some of those elephants to live there?
Why Mars, when there's socialist countries.
Assuming this isn't a joke, terraforming an entire planet (one with a thin atmosphere, no plant life, frozen, etc.) so that moderate to large-sized mammals could survive on it would at the very least take as long as it took medieval Europe to build some of its Cathedrals. And that's if everything went right.
Apparently, the current cost of launching 1 kg of mass into just low-earth-orbit is approximately US $2,000 - $2,300. Last time I weighed and elephant, it was lots and lots of kgs. A herd of 20,000 would be a "considerable expense." Who would be footing the bill?
Hopefully they don't try to deliver them through the Alps
People forget “conservation” means to keep them at a healthy stable population even elephants can be a problem or even invasive species given there are too many.
Tourism accounts for 20% of Botswana's economy. Much of that tourism is safari tourism--people want to visit wild areas to see wildlife, particularly elephants.
Rather than encouraging more tourism to Botswana by highlighting it has the largest elephant population in the world, the President of Botswana appears to be giving the finger to international efforts to increase ethical tourism.
Sustainable practices happen on the ground, ensuring safe corridors for both elephants and humans. Sustainable practices include reforestation efforts, and localized intensified farming to reduce human/elephant conflict. Rather than viewing elephants as a 'problem', they are a precious resource that could help ensure economic security for Botswana.
Soon you will see the illegal Chinese hunting elephant in Botswana 😢
Chinese pay a lot of money to hunt elephants legally in Botswana
@@darkgalaxy55481000 usd?
… so can i buy one?
Hunting FUNDS ANIMAL PROTECTION
Nice play sir
I hope they don't knock down all the beer tents.
If you're giving out elephants, I'll take one.
he doesn't have enough money to save the people how he gonna send 20,000 of them any where
Germany would look pretty cool with elephants. They wouldn’t survive a winter in germany though😂
Can’t believe how many people here genuinely think a herbivore can survive a snowy winter. Especially a german winter.
Yes. All the Europeans, please keep telling Africa how to run itself in every manner. Keep up the tradition.
10K elephants to london too via shipping containers but Suez is close!
Hard LOL :)
😂😂😂😂😂
Botswana is landlocked so export will be a problem. N* never think of details
Should go to the west coast of Africa then,
Instead of sending them to London and Germany send them to Calais and the elephants can swim to England and march to Germany
@@user-rn2zb6be1u don't be rude, poor animals ;)
LOL :)
@@franckcolomb5579What does the “N*” mean?
@@AdamWood-dx7xmNeurodefficient. A common african decease😂
they would trample all over the solar panels . they would push over the wind turbines.
If you're willing to cover shipping, send them to me. I've always wanted to be like Hannibal (the other one 😉), but crossing the rocky mountains to conquer Canada.
Imagine putting an elephant head on a plane lol.
You've got a surplus of a threatened animal and you can't think of another way to profit off that? No wonder the country is poor lol
"Colonialism" now just means "thing I don't like".
Spot on this is misguided eco colonialism. its dangerous and has even been fatal in the past.
Umm ok sure send us elephants
Germany populated by elephants? 🤔
Last time elephants once lived in Germany naturally was the Ice Age.
Then again, there are South American rheas in Germany.
It is like you want to ban abortion but you don't want to adopt the kid.
It’s a tuff thing, I’m a hunter, but i wouldn’t hunt an elephant, but I also wouldn’t stop someone from hunting them. I think there a intelligent animal and there’s not many animals in there ecosystem that can control there population besides humans.
Send them to the US!
Elephant steak for dinner?
Some other countries may want some elephants. Im not sure how it would help Botswana though because the animals will just keep breeding.
Ya this is good better than hunting
Bostwana has good reservation they took care but sometimes it make struggle to poor tribal people there
I have 50acres of land in NovaScotia, Canada..
ill take 50 🐘 please..
Do they like the winter at all,, im no expert.. yet..!!
Botswana government response seems so childish, German had nothing to do with your issue of elephant overpopulation.
its like saying China threatening America by sending unemployed immigrant workers because America are banning Chinese imports so now many chinese workers are unemployed causing employment rate issues in China
What the hell is that guy thinking? Of course they have so much elephants because of conservation efforts. That’s the idea since the population has been decreasing over the past 50 years, if not more. 20,000 animals to send them in a country where they have absolutely no need for them is absurd. The most logical approach would be to translocate some herds in their neighboring countries because of how little they have left. Whatever the issue is, most people will not stand for this and therefore, he’ll risk facing an uproar of the citizens who dislikes the idea of something that is impossible to begin with.
Botswana attempting to start the Fourth Punic War.
Humans have always been part of the ecosystem. If we stop hunting certain animals, an imbalance will naturally occur.
im a hunter ..not of elephants but dude im sorry if anyone wants to take home elephant skin as a trophy ...thats fuxed never understood the feelings of wanting to kill such a large and beautiful animal doubt anyone is eating elephants but i guess i dont know
There's more people then there's elephants
botswana becoming world military power, at the top of military strength of the world, usa china and botswana
Get all the environmental folks to pay damages for Botswana.
As an australian i completely understand what it is like to have an over population of animals that turn into pest(kangaroos and emus) but the rest of the world see the animals in a different way with out any experience with them
Is it the same people that will launch a rocket to the moon at night so it dosent melt? Bring them all into our civilized society at once we clearly need them.
No no so the population not getting bigger
Elephants are still an endangered species!
No they are not
@@Nyatsimba_Mutota There are three extant species of Elephant recognized by IUCN, two endangered, one critically endangered. This isn’t me saying what the best course of action is, I’m just saying that they are all considered endangered by one of the most prominent authorities on the matter.
send them to other neighboring countries other than the one.
Dictate to other countries then play NIMBY. Germany should shut up or help.
Those Elephants will be more polite and contributative than the other african migrants.
All fun an games until they try taking Europe again😂
Trophy hunting is disgusting
Yes hunting is wrong but Germany should take them in. Otherwise it would be disgusting of Germany not to take them in, it will be racist of Germany!!
Then your country should take them in. Elephants are already Killing humans but you still don't want them to reduce their population?
Evil cruel and racist of them to leave them in Africa
@@abhilashpaul9237 you should re-phrase your sentence to "trophy" hunting. You left out that important detail.
It does more to protect wilderness than animal rights activists do. A lot of private land is left for nature and it is economical to do so only because of trophy hunting. To my mind, converting that land to cattle just because your feelings are hurt by trophy hunting, and therefore destroying that habitat not just for the hunted species but all the others, is disgusting. The biggest threat to wildlife in Botswana and Namibia is emotional, ignorant Westerners who feel they are doing the right thing. And that's not an exaggeration. Patting yourselves on the back about how ethical you are while threatening millions of hectares of wilderness is disgusting.
Me, and American: oh no, anyway
Send them to Siberia, let them adapt and become mammoth 😂