With Meghna Chakrabarti

Botswana lifts the ban on elephant hunting. We look at the international backlash and the politics.

Guests

Pauline Bax, Africa editor for Bloomberg, who has been covering Botswana’s elephant summit. (@PaulineBax1)

Ndulamo Anthony Morima, a lawyer and political commentator for Botswana’s national weekly paper, the Weekend Post. (@WeekendPostBW)

Richard Ruggiero, a wildlife conservationist and consultant, who recently retired from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service after a 20-year career as the chief of the Division of International Conservation (@USFWSIntl). He spent 17 years on the ground studying African elephants.

From The Reading List

Washington Post: “‘I hate elephants’:…