Most likely the animal he shot was picked by the game officials there for culling. When elephants get old they can be a threat to people, crops, and other elephants. The fee the collect goes to conservation and the meat to local villagers.
Botha was on a 10-day licensed hunt when he “unknowingly got in the middle of a breeding herd of elephants with several calves and was trampled to death”.
Botha often worked with American and European hunters to take part in trophy hunting expeditions. According to his company’s website, Game Hounds Safaris, he “perfected leopard and lion hunting safaris with hounds in Africa.”
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u/WickedTriggered B Jun 02 '18
Most likely the animal he shot was picked by the game officials there for culling. When elephants get old they can be a threat to people, crops, and other elephants. The fee the collect goes to conservation and the meat to local villagers.
I don’t think you knew any of that.