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Botswana to start auctions of elephant hunting licenses

With unfenced parks and wide-open spaces, Botswana has Africa's largest elephant population with more than 135,000. [AFP]

Botswana on Friday will hold its first major auction for trophy elephant hunting quotas since controversially scrapping a hunting ban last year, a wildlife official said.

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