Botswana to auction elephant hunting licences

Gaborone: Botswana, home to worldu2019s largest elephant population, will hold its first major auction for trophy elephant hunting quotas since scrapping a hunting ban last year.

President Mokgweetsi Masisi raised the ire of conservationists in May when he revoked a moratorium, just a year after he succeeded Ian Khama, an avid environmentalist, who introduced a blanket ban in 2014 to reverse a decline in the population of wild animals.