'A resurgence of colonial conquest' - says the President of Botswana | Trophy hunting ban
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- The President of Botswana has hit back at MPs debating a potential ban on trophy hunting imports.
In an interview with Sky News' Yalda Hakim, Mokgweetsi Masisi said that politicians in the UK were "condescending" his people.
Mr Masisi said that elephant populations were surging in Botswana, putting the lives of people at risk - and some of them needed to be killed.
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Indeed, Botswana is one of the best places to grow up in....
As a South African I very much concur. Batswana are loyal to their African values and self-determinant
Definitely it is
Trust
As a Nigerian I support Botswana 🇧🇼 enough of these humiliation from dead countries and imperialism
A CO/RR/UP/TED COUNTRY WITH A COR/RU/P/TED GOVERNMENT!!!!!
Our President has represented us well. Big up His Excellency.
Answered eloquently
He is not useful to us. He is just a pretender, elephants are not of any issue
But i think its embarrassing for a president to be interviewed like this
The president should not even speak to this hypocritical news crew. What nonsense
Botswana does not lecture the British government on selling arms that kill people… UK has enough problems to focus on before lecturing others on their affairs. Behave..
Exactly! 💯
We are tired of their hypocrisy and superiority complex.
Botswana is not as powerful as Britain
I like how President of Botswana and Batswana are never shaken by anything!! Lets also applaud how confident and knowledgeable he is about this sensitive issue.
They really are keeping their best in their borders.
That's the president of The Republic Of Botswana, and we stand with him on every response he gave to each question. The obsession of the Western world to control, devide and rule us from far isn't anything news. The least they could do is focus on their cats, penguins and fish and leave us alone with our elephants. As for that graphic image, pay attention to the people on that image, then that's it. We love OUR ELEPHANTS, and that's that.
are we still colonized, what gives the British the audacity to tell us how to run our country? why do they value elephants than human lives? we should not even be discussing this issue with the British, they should focus on their crippling economy and let us be
Its this girl talking to our President like she knows him from down the street and now she's checking if he's actually informed or just for the streets. Ke hupetse. Because not only do i know of the danger he's speaking of, I live in it. A whole panel of white people debating with a Botswana about the livelihood of Botswana is absurd to me.
Mmh wa tella. I'm not even from Botswana but shame on her.
I'm a South African and I was so upset on behalf of the President, but his calmness and clearly articulation of the problem and the possible solutions I admired him. Think he's far clever than our own President
I see the same in Alaska when I visit. Americans & Europeans getting Reindeer, Polar, giant grizzly bears and Whales
Look, I am Nigerian and I think whst your president should do is discuss this with presidents of other african countries that have their elephant popularion dying out like Nigeria, Cameroon etc and then move these elephants there. No elephant should be killed. Move those elephants into eastern and western african countries.
@@fatfarmers7360yes good idea agree
What give these Brits the audacity to tell us on what we must do with our elephants? Who arrogated them the moral guts to describe our way of controlling elephant population barbaric and appalling? Can someone advice them to stay within the perimeters of their jurisdiction? We dont complain when they cull foxes and squirrels.
They are overstepping their bounds,and we must not allow that.They must keep their sentiments and morals to themselves.
I guess because they some what aid towards the wild life conservation of Botswana. So they can make suggestions can't they... So let them, why do people need to fight against nearly every thing especially if they of a different nationally. Sad world.
Maybe Botswana is still a British protectorate?😂
@@gtxchufxvjWe do not need their aid but rather they need us for their research in wild life ecosystems that we still have intact.
@@gtxchufxvjOn protège les grands animaux et on interdit aux êtres humains a manger ( par exemple les poissons pour que les baleines en mange par la tonnes).
Je trouve qu'il a raison.
Réveillez-vous de ce que les fous qui veulent réduire l'être humain par tous les moyens ( bloquer les hormones au enfants dès leurs puberté, tuer les vaches, vcc. non-testé à la transmission avant d'être mis sur le marché, etc.).
Botswana and Namibia are good at nature conservation
They finished their animals in Europe now they want to lecture Africa
No, they're trying to prevent what happened in Europe from happening to Africa. The Europeans wiped out all of their major wildlife And now it seems like Africa is making the same mistake.
That woman consistently never considered anything the President had to say about the African lives being trampled by elephants
@@sonofnok2153 What about the elephants being butchered by humans?
@@sonofnok2153 I wouldn't ever listen to women willingly.
@@affirmingtoe15 The elephants shouldn't trample humans and farmland then. Karma.
UK should show us the animals they have conserved and their population...they should not try to be smart with us after they failed to protect their own animals
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They have penguins and seals😂
😂😂😂come to think of it, they have very little biodiversity
@@josephlungu9382 their seas are full of nets
@@josephlungu9382 There are no pinguins in the northern hemisphere, for your knowledge.
This lady is very immature in her questioning, she lacks empathy. How many people die due elephant attack, do they even care? Or elephant's lives are more important?
She's a puppet
She is right... doing what her boss told her to do... immature is the president. He should let someone else represent him 😢
yes, even at the start she tried to tell him he does not see the whole picture, but she is ignoring the actual whole picture.
kaizerkeaitse
If the elephants are so dangerous then why try to 'conserve" them? I'm guessing they would die off quickly and easily if the government wasn't making an effort to conserve them. Why not let the poachers take care of it instead of getting europeans from europe to do it while complaining about europeans?
@@blackblaze5271most elephants are calm except from bull elephants, most wildlife attacks on humans are from hippos and Cape buffalos
In full support of this..I love my country 🇧🇼
I am greeting from Uyo in Nigeria
Brtz have selective dementia..
Botswana is not a Zoo.people leave there.
These brits care more about elephant lives than human lives.
Ba nnyela
ITS GOVERNMENT IS A ZOO!!!!
@@second2none914
If the elephants are such a problem then why conserve them? Why doesn't the botswana government allow their people to poach them for money but instead allows europeans in to make do the same and make it their play ground?
@@second2none914there’s 8 billion humans compared to 400,000 African elephants
Does she even know an elephant or wildlife,she thinks it's fun to wake up with an elephant in your backyard
My President,wow...the best responses sir...
-What gives them the right to think they know our wildlife better than us?,it's a shame for them to be even making such uphalling statements when we are yet to still address our minerals they are keeping while they don't even have the mines.
-The fact that they speak of what they don't understand,photographs of tourists and the reality on the ground is not lived by those who are talking.They have no clue of how we value and treasure our wildlife.
-Botswana is a sovereign state that respect international law on wildlife so our ideology and respect of our people and wildlife conflict much be respected in terms of how we want to amicably and respectfully want to deal with our animal population...
Are UK MPs saying elephants should continue killing African people in the name conservation?I find that quite offensive.
So do we in Botswana
It's like they own us.
Very very offensive !
I don't know what this debate is about, but the President of Botswana is on point. 📍
It's about aliens landing on earth !
Elephants in Botswana are not as endangered as elephant habitat.
Numbers have to be controlled in order to protect the habitat from destruction. Its that simple.
they can be reallocated
@@teddysandram1033 to where exactly just to create the same problem somewhere else.
@@markwinter7511 Manchester
@@teddysandram1033 To Stratford-upon-Avon?
Talking like a keyboard warrior that have no idea of what is happening in the real field. No clue at all😂😂
The president is very patient with repeating questions, I would have lost it 3 minutes into this conversation.
Exactly. The lady was condescending.
This woman is concerned about pictures of dead elephants not human life
Imagine
Because the human life in question is that of black Africans...and why does she keep interrupting a whole PRESIDENT? ..it's unprofessional.😑
Full support & solidarity to Botswana from India
Do not let Westerners or these brits interfere into your internal affairs of your sovereign independent country
They are full of themselves.....
Someone on the run went to report back home😂😅😂😅😂
e nfeditse kgang eo rra🤣🤣🤣"the fmr president is on the run, from curruption allegations" a o raya Rre Khama?
😂😂😂
The solution is simple the UK can purchase all the elephants from Botswana and settle them in places they deem safe.
Quite frankly we shouldn't be justifying ourselves, we are choosing to protect lives of people over animals. UK always feel entitled to have a say in other countries business.
Colonialism in play, it's just people with power trying to exert it on the weak
Botswana criminalizes it's own citizens for killing elephants for money but then invites europeans over to kill those elephants for money. They're not fighting europe or colonialism. This is all just fake pan african posturing, which a lot of people/countries to allow themselves to do what they want to do.
Well said
We are coming with 10,000 elephants in the uk
Ba bolelele gore re eta koo😅🤣😆
They won't manage them
Ipaakanyeng !
And should we settle them in London
What British people don't understand is the way the elephant population has grown so much its now endangering the lives of people and property in Botswana.. Unfortunately trophy hunting is one of the ways in controlling this uncontrollable population of the species
They understand. They just don't care.
Botswana is a very rare example of a stable and relatively well doing country in Africa.... of course UK is looking to meddle with that. they'd love to see Botswana failing like UK does.
Controlled Hunting has been one of conservation Botswana conservation tool that's why we have so many elephants in Botswana and Hunting create employment as well
Don’t worry Mr President. Africa and its people will do the right thing because the ALMIGHTY purposefully made Africans the guardians of Earth.
Botswana is doing well and is a first world African country.
😂 dream on.
Botswana is doing really fine, the country is stable with a good economy better than many countries outside Africa
@@smallscaleminingsupplies9670 no it's not. Ask the average person on the street! And why does gov still need aid from outside...
@@gtxchufxvj if u would have lived in Burundi, DRC or Somalia u would have a different opinion about the standard of living in Botswana
@gtxchufxvj what kind of aid and are yu talking about?do yu think there I a country capable of giving free money?Botswana is a leading diamonds exporter in the world they don't need anyone's aid
This is the most intelligent and civilized president in Africa. I love this guy, wish he was my president.
I'm Kenyan, and fairly impressed. I don't often comment on leaders because over many years I've seen people praise some of our leaders based on some surface knowledge
People sitting in skyscrapers have no say over our wildlife…
Beautifully said👏🏽
I reside in United States and i went home in December and drove from Francistown to Kasane. I was shocked how many elephants we saw between Nata and Kasane. We stopped counting after we reached 50. I used to be against trophy hunting now i am having a second thought
Each year they multiply and multiply mma eish go maswe
It's really scary 😔
Ditiro di kae kako ne tsala yame?
It’s true I’m South African and I’ve never seen so many elephants 🐘 like I have in Botswana
At night it's so dangerous that we don't drive after sunset 😢 or move around on foot in Kasane town cause at night they are governors of the Kasane
Our president, speaking both good English and sense
Tell him to stop talking so fast, though😂😂😂
The British government will talk about anything, other than helping any of its own citizens.
Le re twaela m@$3pa lona
Ba re tlwaela blind ka dilo tsa Rona ba paletswe ke go tlhokomela tsa bone
🤣💀
😂😂😂😂
Ba tlaa nnyela kana 🤔 Le ene ngwanyana o o nnetseng go tsena tautona ganong a Bua o🤔nxa!
this ia the comment i was looking for🤣
This woman is so proof in her logic... she serve her masters...
The audacity the British have. Whatever Botswana decide to do with their elephants shouldn't be questioned by anybody. Where will UK put the elephants and why do they even think they have the right to open their mouths about elephants in Botswana. Bloody nonsense
It normally happens when they notice their share of the proceeds is dwindling 😁😂🤣😂. Obviously, the Batswana are now benefiting more and more from this lucrative industry 😂
Its not your elephants. It’s the environment.. just so appalling.
@@vishalagnihotri6431 it's theirs coz it's in their country . Stop hallucinating coz that's the fact and there is nothing the UK can do about . They can yell all they want and u can join them as well. Hypocrite 🚮🚾
Our president! His excellency Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi💪🏾🔝🇧🇼🇧🇼
That woman consistently never considered anything the President had to say about the African lives being trampled by elephants
She is more worried about 80% of the Brits who are living an elephant-free life than she is about people being killed by the elephants.
What a president. I truly agree with his views and he’s clearly well versed on the topic.
If it was in South Africa, no one would have defended the country.
Viva Botswana 🇧🇼
Doesn't horrify me....speak for yourself...stop forcing your values on me
Thanks to this intelligent and down to earth president. Refreshing to have someone who can stand up for your country
so why not ban photography of hunted animals instead of the practice if at all the motivation is derived from the 'disturbing images' 😂😂 these people really think we value wild animals more than human life 😂🚮🚮
I salute president Masisi Appointed by The God of Botswana 🇧🇼.
#People over Elephants
#Elephant Control
The president was very eloquent and direct with his points. It is true that passing bills in your country that target another country is morally abhorrent and indeed the "resurgence of a colonial conquest"
What they see as a country somewhere in Africa,is what we call home. This needs to be done and it has nothing to with not wanting the elephants. Let the local communities benefit from trophy hunters; their fields are destroyed and livelihoods compromised by the large population of elephants.
Tanki motho wetsho go ntse jalo..
These European don't see rhe other side, and they preach us.
In Botswana 🇧🇼 we have long conserved our animals. That is why we have totems within our tribes who do not hunt animals of their totems.
In Botswana we have long taken care of our wildlife as we know how to how live them .
Nobody on this world can tell us what to and not tell us on how we should live with our wildlife.
A fugitive comes and misinformes a out our wildlife.
Go ntse jalo motsadi tsa bone ba di heditse ka bohatlha jwa bone
What a smart, well informed and brilliant President.
How i wish most of our MPs and our PM are partly as enlightened as the President.
I am also shocked with our endless quest to pock our fingers on the affairs of other sovereign nations as if we are still in the Victorian age.
MPs please focus on our internal security challenges and allow Botswana to be.
The arrogant, ignorant and condescending attitudes coming through on this matter, ignore the realities the ground.
Elephants can be extremely dangerous, and destructive...
Botswana's elephants are well managed, and there are simply too many of them.
It's an emotive debate.
There are two sides to every issue. And this one has been oversimplified.
The same people against the controlling of the population of Elephants never send condolences to people killed by these animals
Poor journalism, the anchor showed no intention of understanding if the president had anything of substance. She gave the sense that she was looking for a 'gotcha' moment! 🙄
There are controlled hunting seasons in Botswana, where not only elephants but other species like zebras, crocodiles, wildbeasts etc are also hunted. All this animals needs the limited space in the wild to coexist.
I suggest Botswana donate10% of their 130000 elephants to UK and we see how they r gonna deal with it.
The british must come and fetch the elephants if they want them.
Somebody who is a fugitive is the one who fuels this lies.
Akere
Good going Mr President
People who have never seen an elephant killing a human being in the middle of a village in Broad day light would go against controlled hunting,they occupy more land and stretch further in to human territory in search of water and maize, water melons in the fields,elephants kill people daily at the fields, an elephant took my great mothers life so people just talk without experience, people who live in cities in Botswana will increase the percentage of those who are against population contolling of this beasts because they never encounter them during their daily livelihood activities. How can we extinct this elephants while we have been living with them all this years...Britain should find something better to discuss because they never talk about human wildlife conflicts and they value elephant life rather than the human one
Botwana is not that poor... It can control that situation without Europe. There is no need to be upset with Some Europeans refuse to come hunt them. By the way, how were your ancestors able to control those before European reach your land? Our African ancestors wherever they are now could be laughing at us how weak we have become with the terrible mentality of dependency.
Cant we donate these elephants to African countries that wants to repopulate their wild reserves? I think its logical that we do this.
Logistics issues, we have already sent an invitation to African countries that want elephants
No let's donate them to UK first
Its expensive to transport them, at whos expense cos Botswana won't be paying
@@kissthato4064 UK is the one that needs to protect them, so they must transport and protect them
Our elephants are not bound by fence or borders,they room freely between Botswana,
😊 Zimbabwe,Zambia,Zimbabwe and Namibia but most of them prefer to live in Botswana as their habitat. We donated some to Angola DRC and ended up coming home
The problem we have is that Europeans think they have the right to always lecture African states on their own affairs, but never allow African states to lecture them on theirs. There is also one very evil attitude I have seen. If an elephant rampage a village, or a lion kills the locals, these people seem not to care, but if a man kills a lion all hell breaks loose, even if it is for human protection purposes like the Botswana case.
British people regard animals in a more important manner than actual people
As long as those people are not from Africa, Palestine or Russia 🤔
Quiet ironic, after eating all of theirs, now they are our lecturers.
European tintos.
i liked th line come to Botswana
😢😢😢😢 I'm from Kenya but I fail to understand how can someone far away ca dictate how a sovereign country should do, handle or live with their resources,,, such that a whole president have to try to explain so hard😢😢😢😢😢😢😢,,,, so we are still colonized?????!!!
WEll Spoken and said the fact is leave Botswana to run their own success in managing wildlife. The western world eradicated their own wildlife while Southern Africa has a boom in animal numbers. All this partly to management an sustainable use.
This person dont know anything about carrying capacity,destruction and Wildlife managment.
She doesn't even care..... empty questions...... afterward she will sleeps...
UK are being influenced by a Motswana person who happens to have another Passport with them apart from Botswana one. It's a Political game.
Well said Mr President.
Very eloquent and smart President😊
She has no right to talk to a president like that.
The disrespect!!! The nerve!!! Great response and understanding of his country from the president
The audacity, arrogance and superiority complex of these western countries is unfathomable. My gracious 😅
Our presidents forget to mention the devastating environmental effects the chobe(especially along the river) area has endured due to an overpopulation of the elephants. I would like to see more of our Southern African neighbors requesting to repopulate their national parks with some the elephants.
This lady isn't well schooled. Our President knows his thing. We are a proud nation shem❤❤❤
I am adding him to my list of favorite presidents. A few can talk sense like him
Is Sky News made to discuss other countries issues?
Pres Masisi very intelligent.
Lion hunting is a lucrative business in South Africa. It would be great to see Botswana do something similar.
As long as they keep he population stable, and avoid put-and-take hunting with breeding farms.
African Elephants are beautiful animals. They protect themselves from humans hence get aggressive naturally. Wish they can export them to countries who needs elephants. Botswana is blessed with wild life which attracts tourism.
They are donated to a lot of countries all the time, that does nothing to their population.
We gave Mozambique 200 elephants and they came back... it means there is something they like about Botswana.....
Tell those countries to import those elephants. Exporting an elephant, a singular elephant costs a lot of money.
And for context, just know they are not tamed, they are wild elephants free to travel from Botswana to Zambia all the way to Democratic Republic of Congo. Since there is war in DRC, they are stagnant in Botswana because of the Okavango Waters. When the Okavango Delta perennial rivers dry up, the elephants move to human settlements where there are boreholes and tap waters to drink.
Looking for peace & harmony @@mjdadj4072
Why is the president even responding to this madness. This is disrepect on people from Botswana. From SA
As a proud motswana I’m with my president on this one
This President speaks well.
In support of my country and my president. Who is to tell us how to conserve our elephants when elephant numbers show we are the best conservationists in the world..??
Here we are defending ourselves because someone passed by,de drama continues. God see us through
For those who pretends to know animal right and who know nothing about Africa, they might feel the need to support this bill. Image know this animals are in a certain part of a protected part of Britain in a national park and the y pop up in the outskirts of Bristol or Swansea...A Nasa scientist isn't required to explain what will happen. The President for ya'll to get it, come live within our border to understand and get it. In remote areas people are living fear because of these animals.
Thus wisdom my President!
I said it and am saying again, if those 120k elephants launch a full scale invasion against the 1.5M population, the people are doomed😅
Britain has no wilderness or eco systems...visible otters, chance of a squirrels and I've never seen a red one
They killed the wildlife.
And then all of a sudden they know better about managing another country's wilderness... I think they are getting bored over there...
@@tekanyokgotlhane6950Well yeah because they don't want what happened to their wildlife to happen to other wildlife around the world.
@affirmingtoe15 I hear your point but I reckon it wouldn't hurt to assess the situational context before dubbing it as mismanagement... the elephant population used to be like 50k in Botswana and it now has reached a staggering 130k, proving the country as doing extremely well interms of conservation of the ecosystem... and to maintain equilibrium the measures are important to make sure that the population of elephants can still be sustained by their habitat and they can still coexist with human life...
Here in the USA , people get permits to hunt alligators, pythons and many other animal groups that they Deam as threatening to public safety due to their amount and proximity of them to human being.
Go Botswana 🇧🇼 Go!
We need more Presidents like this one in South Africa... But I do admit, it's a lot more trick to rule over a diverse population than a homogenous one.
Nope, we don't.
Homogenous? It's a good majority of Tswana but I wouldn't say homogenous.
Where in the world is there a homogeneous population?
"I wish they would be horrified when elephants maul people", true that Mr President
Very well informed and Smart Man. Pres Masisi
Mr. President, ask them how are they allowing hunters in their country to hunt down deers. Deers are vital for the ecosystem as well. Hypocrisy at best.
This is Y Bob Gab Mugabe is my hero,no one from way far as Europe can tell me how i manage my over populated elephants,Britain conserve ur own wild life,i don't need 2 justify the hunting on game animals,go 2 a didddy party britain get ur back blown out,if they don’t lift the ban the black market is aways there
colonialsim still exists , but years to come African countries will boom and flourish
Extremely impressed by HE Masisi. Very happy with his response
Botswana and it's people have every right to make the decisions they are making. Botswana has done their part, their elephant population has been growing every year. I believe they will continue to play their part well into the future. Unfortunately, elephants are not like domesticated dogs...they ravage land, devour grazing land and then seek better grazing land closer to human populations..thats just one example...this has to be handled one way or another. I wouldn't want to see Botswana choose elephants over the lives of human beings! I'm not from Botswana but anyone outside of Botswana who hasn't seen what these elephants do to people, please, kindly save your words for your own country's affairs. Let Botswana do whats best for Botswana!
They should give the elephants to some other countries in Africa
I agree with the President, but why don't they compensate the people with the money they make on tourisme.
Because 80% of the tourism income is going to UK. And no this is not a vague number, ITS A FACT
Botswana makes every effort to look after its people but with all these ill founded CITES rules, it's not easy to strike a balance between humans and animals