Leon Kachelhoffer

Leon Kachelhoffer is a Botswanan trophy hunter who caused an international outcry for killing a circa 45-year-old rare and well-known 'big tusker' elephant in Botswana in 2022 alongside a smaller second elephant.^[1][2][3]

Kachelhoffer, who is working as a professional hunter within the African wildlife since 2002, was reportedly paid $50,000, of which a large portion went directly to the community in which the elephant was hunted, to kill the biggest elephant professionally hunted since 1996. The former Botswanan President Ian Khama criticized that Kachelhoffer had killed ‘one of the largest if not the largest tusker in the country' that had furthermore been a 'tourist attraction for tour operators'.^{[citation needed]}

Kachelhoffer justified his killing by stating that

When asked about the case, Dr. Dilys Roe of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) speculated that paid elephant hunting could have a positive impact on wildlife, highlighting that "if nothing can be earned with wildlife, the local population would rather convert the hunting grounds into agricultural land and kill the animals themselves".^[5]

See also

• Other notable animals killed by hunters and poachers:
  • Killing of Cecil the Lion
  • Pedals (bear)
  • Romeo (wolf)
  • Vince (rhinoceros): killed by poachers near Paris
• Endangered species
• Big five game
• Elephant gun

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