I honestly can’t tell the difference between real news and satire sometimes.
Botswana as a benevolent steward of the world’s wildlife is a lie. They ban the local people from subsistence hunting but invite the world’s ultra wealthy instead—even though it is the traditions of those local people who preserved those animals since prehistoric times. They now take credit while destroying the cultures who did the real work of protecting that wildlife.
Officials from the southern African country already protested a potential U.K. ban on safari hunters importing trophies, warning in March they would send 10,000 elephants to Hyde Park in London.
So who’s paying to ship these 30,000 elephants to Europe?
Because I imagine shipping one elephant would be pretty expensive and I don’t think Botswana is a very wealthy country…
Because I imagine shipping one elephant would be pretty expensive and I don’t think Botswana is a very wealthy country…
Botswana is one of the best off countries in Africa.
I don’t see why not. I mean, it would be a colossal waste of money, but the Botswana government has a yearly budget of some 4 billion USD.
Easily.
The price for a 20ft shipping container from Africa to Europe is around €12.000 and you should be able to fit two elephants in a container. So you need around 15.000 containers, so aroung €180 million. And you’d probably get a discount for booking half a container ship.
Invasive species indeed!
Is there a US National Park that could take them, I wonder? That would be a sight to behold!
Poor mountain lions would be like “WTF? Can we eat that?” and the elephants would be like “Bitch, we know REAL lions…”
“Hannibal? Is this Rome?”
“Well I think it… it looks… is it? Ah, fuck it. We’re invading anyway.”