Zimbabwe will start to sell rights for people to shoot as many as 500 elephants this year to raise money for its parks. The spokesman for the country's Park and Wildlife Authority, Tinashe Farawo, confirmed the news with CNN, citing the country's declining tourism revenue caused by the coronavirus pandemic as a reason. 'We eat what we kill,' Farawo said. 'We have a budget of about $25 million for our operations which is raised - partly - through sports hunting, but you know tourism is as good as dead at the moment due to the coronavirus pandemic.' Poachers are willing to pay […]
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