“A bittersweet moment.”
Earlier this month, Mokgweetsi Masisi, the president of Botswana, offered to send Germany 20,000 of his country’s elephants. He was reacting to the German government’s plan to restrict the importation, by German hunters, of hunting trophies from Africa. “This is not a joke,” the president reportedly said of his offer Mr Masisi may not have […]
Music icon and animal rights activist Cher was ecstatic earlier this year when a Pakistani court ruled that an Asian elephant named Kaavan, held in solitary confinement at the Islamabad Zoo, should be released to a sanctuary. The animal was being mistreated at the zoo and missed his mate Saheli, who died in 2012. “We were […]
Showing no respect for social distancing, the drunk elephants fell asleep in a nearby tea garden, happy to have found more than they bargained for at the farm.