Botswana’s biggest tusker elephant killed

• Botswana’s largest ‘tusker’ elephant has been killed by a professional trophy hunter for $50,000.

• It has been claimed by hunter Leon Kachelhoffer that he killed the 200lb elephant on the country’s Northern border. • According to reports, the elephant is said to have been in his 50s and was killed with a single shot.

• Now only 40 tusker elephants remain in Africa with one tusk weighing over 100lbs.