April 2021: you can buy an elephant hunting grant at auction for $50,000

April 2021: you can buy an elephant hunting grant at auction for $50,000

The Zimbabwe government claim that the Covid pandemic has severely reduced tourism income because of flight restrictions et cetera and as a consequence the authorities are auctioning off 500 trophy hunting grants to shoot 500 elephants in a country where it is said there are 85,000.

It would have been better if the government had run the country more efficiently because the true reason for these grants is not the pandemic but poor management and corruption.


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