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The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has confirmed authorising the killing of 21 elephants and several other wild species as part of Botswana’s 59th Independence Day celebrations, a decision that has brought condemnation from conservationists and animal welfare groups across the world.<\/p>\n
The order, contained in a Savingram dated September 25, 2025, instructed district officers and wildlife rangers to facilitate the cull. Officials defended the move as a long-standing population control measure…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has confirmed authorising the killing of 21 elephants and several other wild species as part of Botswana’s 59th Independence Day celebrations, a decision that has brought condemnation from conservationists and animal welfare groups across the world. The order, contained in a Savingram dated September 25, 2025, instructed district officers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651659:1710badcd07de3dd0c3c406b182dc193:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,42655,4718,2462,7820,3496,257,35214,254],"class_list":["post-210574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-defends","tag-elephants","tag-news","tag-slaughtering","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651659:1710badcd07de3dd0c3c406b182dc193:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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