A former African president who banned trophy hunting has urged MPs to attend a vital vote next week “to halt the reckless, cruel destruction of the world’s wonderful wildlife by nature’s enemies.”
Ian Khama, 70, who criminalised trophy-hunting in 2014 during his decade in office as the president of Botswana, warned that every day without a ban on imports took elephants nearer to extinction.
He also brought in a shoot-to-kill policy on poachers but current president Mokgweetsi Masisi overturned the ban and disbanded anti-poaching units.
