Just Kill Yourself by Percy Kachelhoffer

'Incompetence and poor leadership have almost wiped out the rhino population, and now this!'Įlephants are an endangered species and Botswana has one of the largest elephant populations with 130,000 estimated in the country.Īccording to The Times, elephant hunting raised US$2.7 million in 2021 for Botswana and 400 licences have neem sold this year. No wildlife means no tourism, no tourists no jobs, and no revenue stream.' 'How does it being dead benefit our declining tourism due to poor policies. 'An elephant that tour operators constantly tried to show tourists as an iconic attraction. Khama posted on Facebook that the elephant has been an 'iconic' tourist attraction. The killing has re-sparked the controversial debate surrounding trophy hunting in Africa.įormer Botswana president Ian Khama imposed a trophy hunting ban across the country in 2014, which was then scrapped in 2019 by his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi. 'You know, there's more to it than shooting a bull, taking a photograph, becoming a hero and all this other nonsense.' 'When you take a bull like that, there's a lot of remorse, there's a lot of sadness, you think about the great life that this elephant has led.' 'To be in a position to hunt a bull like that, it's an incredible privilege,' Kachelhoffer told the Blood Originspodcast. The large elephant was carrying 91kg of ivory in its nearly eight-foot-long tusks before it was shot dead by professional hunter Leon Kachelhoffer.Īccording to The Times, Kachelhoffer paid around US$50,000 for the days-long hunt on Botswana’s northern border with Namibia in order to kill the elephant on behalf of a wealthy client. There are only a small number of tusker elephants alive with estimates ranging from 20 to 40 tuskers left in the world. Tusker elephants are elephants with tusks that are so large they almost touch the ground. Botswana's biggest tusker elephant has been killed by a trophy hunter, re-igniting debate in the country around elephant hunting.

Just Kill Yourself by Percy Kachelhoffer