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Botswana authorizes elephants to be killed for a celebration

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Claim

The newsletter reports Botswana authorizing the killing of 23 elephants for its independence jubilee, an action the author condemns.

Reported metric: 23 elephants

Reporting date: 2026-10-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 3 issue (www.bbc.com)

Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 3, 2026 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Welcome to October 3, 2026

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Botswana government

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Welcome to October 3, 2026

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Botswana authorizes elephants to be killed for a celebration
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-03-botswana-elephants
Claim: The newsletter reports Botswana authorizing the killing of 23 elephants for its independence jubilee, an action the author condemns.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-3-2026
- Source linked by the October 3 issue — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxm2qmpy57ggo
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

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