Botswana asks Germany not to toughen hunting trophy import controls
Botswana's Minister of Environment and Tourism, Dumizweni Mthimkhulu, is appealing to the German government not to impose stricter regulations on the import of hunting trophies from African countries. Mthimkhulu told a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday that he had spoken to German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke on Tuesday and invited her to travel to Botswana to take a look at the situation on the ground. Lemke, he said, had told him that she unfortunately did not have time to travel to Africa. "But it is extremely important that she does," he said. In January, the Belgian parliament ...