This comes days after reports, denied by Gaborone authorities,  that 90 elephants have been poached for their tusks in the  largest African sanctuary for the endangered giants.

Prime Minister Mokgweetsi Masisi has the launched the debate on the desirability of maintaining the ban on elephant hunting introduced by his conservationist predecessor Ian Khama.

With a national herd of 135 000 elephants – that’s more than  third of these fast depleting  animals on the African continent – its argued that their impact on the environment is unmanageably hard, putting them on a collision course with humans.

Masisi will meet with researchers on the coming weeks and will then address a kgotla on the issue

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