The President of Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. Botswana is home to about a third of the world's elephant population, with more than 130,000.
In 2019 it lifted a five-year ban on elephant hunting, after the number of elephants tripled. Germany is the largest importer in the European Union of African elephant tusks and ivory tusk. The German Ministry of the Environment called for earlier this year to impose stricter restrictions on the import of hunting game.