Elephants splash at sunset in the waters of the Chobe river in Botswana Chobe National Park, on March 20, 2015. Botswana government has denied media reports that suggested that nearly 100 elephants had been killed for ivory. PHOTO | CHRIS JEK | AFP
Botswana has refuted media reports that nearly 100 elephants had been killed in the country for ivory.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism, Thato Y. Raphaka, said “at no point in the last months or recently were 87 or 90 elephants killed in one incident in any place in Botswana".
