Mthimkhulu kicks off Westminster lobby

Bull by the horns: Leaders from communities that live alongside wildlife are in the United Kingdom to lobby against the planned hunting imports ban bill PIC: MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM FACEBOOK
Bull by the horns: Leaders from communities that live alongside wildlife are in the United Kingdom to lobby against the planned hunting imports ban bill PIC: MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM FACEBOOK

LONDON: The Minister of Environment and Tourism, Dumezweni Mthimkhulu, will this afternoon lead a high-powered Botswana delegation to the House of Commons at the Palace of Westminster, where the country's position on hunting will be articulated to UK parliamentarians.

Earlier today, Mthimkhulu was due to address a Botswana delegation at the High Commission here on the country’s position regarding the second reading of the United Kingdom’s Trophies Hunting (Importation Prohibition) Bill.

According to the British Parliament, the renewed Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill, will undergo first reading today, then be debated at a second reading on Friday, March 22 in the House of Commons, the lower of the UK’s two legislative houses.

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