20,000 elephants may soon be stamped peeding their way to Germany. Right now, this massive herd is just an idle threat from a country with more than 100,000 of the hungry animals. We're talking about Botswana. While rich in wildlife, more than a third of its human population was living in poverty just a decade ago. Recently though, Botswana has transformed into an upper middle income country, and economic improvements are on track to continue for at least the next decade. That's thanks in part to the millions of dollars it receives every year to allow big game trophy hunting. So let's talk about the obvious elephant in the room. No country in the world has more elephants than Botswana. Over 130,000 of them. In an area, experts say can only ecologically support about 25 to 50,000. Trophy hunting is one of the ways the country is bringing in much-deeded revenue, while keeping the elephant populations in check. Even though animal rights groups argue hunting is cruel to animals, regardless of their numbers. So when German government officials suggested stricter limits on trophy hunting imports, stemming from poaching concerns, that triggered Botswana's president. Declaims any change to the current policy will cause a variety of negative effects throughout Botswana. Sighting issues from poverty due to the loss of tourism revenue. Not to mention, locals would be left to deal with more elephants than they can handle. I wish there would be a horrified one when elephants, mall and more rhodd people. I find it unfathomable that you'd be horrified by the protection of one's livelihood, rural poor people who have allowed 40% of the country to be set aside for conservation. So that's why they're threatening to send thousands of them to Germany. And as alarming as it may sound, it's not the first time Botswana has tried to offload elephants to other nations. Government officials say the country has already offered 8,000 to Angola and another 500 to Mozambique. Now they believe it's Germany's turn to pitch in. Botswana's president claims he won't take no for an answer. So the next shipment of elephants could soon be on its way to Berlin.