Lions know better than to take on elephants, at least without the safety of numbers. A video out of the Kruger National Park, ...

Hunting excursions in Zimbabwe can cost more than $37,000 and hunters also have to pay up to $14,500 for each elephant killed, according to safari hunting websites.

Ariño, now 95, defends legal hunting in Africa in his books and recounts how he once shot a record 20 animals in just 75 ...

Kruger rangers face armed poachers daily while investigating elephant killings and recent poaching camps in a 2-million-hectare wilderness. Rangers undergo six-week intensive training, including 15km ...

“There is a small quota of elephants in the area, and we only hunt two elephants a year,” Omujeve Hunting Safaris owner Corné Kruger told News24 in 2018, when the clip first surfaced.

Moreover, elephant populations in these countries have dramatically increased, supported by the incentives that hunting creates. Botswana was home to only 50,000 elephants in the 1990s.

Botswana’s government says rural communities have earned $5 million since last year from the proceeds of elephant hunting. Conservationists object to the practice, but local officials say the ...

Elephant killings on the Tanzanian side three decades ago prompted similar anger and led to the announcement of a moratorium on hunting. In December 1994, three Amboseli elephants were killed in ...

Today, elephant hunting only happens in Mababe for six months out of the year. “When hunting season starts, [the elephants] begin to distance themselves. When it ends, ...

DW. Elephant hunting in Botswana. Posted: August 6, 2024 | Last updated: February 19, 2025. Hunting elephants in Botswana is less controversial than you might think.