🐘 Botswana’s elephants

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It’s Thursday, April 4 — here’s what you’ll find in today’s newsletter:

• The debate over Botswana’s elephants

• American Airlines’s new pet policy

• 4 quick hits of news from the last 24 hours

- Jeff (co-founder of Shades)

🐘 Botswana’s elephants

Botswana's president said he would ship 20k elephants to Germany over a proposed trophy hunting ban.

🐘 Botswana's President Masisi threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany. It's over a German law that would ban trophy hunting imports.

🐘 BBC: Masisi says elephant hunting is crucial for the economy. Also, elephants do serious damage to rural communities.

🐘 NDTV: Masisi says it's a serious challenge. Germany doesn't understand how dangerous these elephants are — if they want to conserve them, let them do it in their own country.

🐘 The Guardian: But Germany says it has a duty to limit trophy imports. There's an “alarming loss of biological diversity”, and Germany is Europe's #1 importer of hunting trophies.

🐾 American’s pet policy

Traveling with pets? American Airlines says to pack your pet *and* your carry-on.

🐾 American Airlines updated its pet policy! Passengers can bring a pet and a carry-on item in the cabin. A blogger on CBS hopes the policy will cut down on false claims of service dogs.

🐾 Pet Helpful celebrated the change: American's change is sensible, and it makes traveling with your pets a lot easier.

🐾 But a Redditor on r/AmericanAirlines wasn't a fan: AA's new rule does nothing to curb the rise of “fake” service dogs on planes.

🐾 By the way, Travel+Leisure notes that AA's new pet policy is similar to Southwest's: SW never charged pet owners for their carry-on!

Quick hits

🏥 A small number of tuberculosis cases have emerged in Chicago's migrant shelters, adding to health concerns.

🏒 A massive brawl involving ten players erupted just seconds into the NHL game between NY Rangers and NJ Devils.

🚆 CSX initiates a new rail line to manage diverted cargo amid the Port of Baltimore's closure, affecting significant trade.

📈 A report predicts a significant increase in global cancer cases by 2050, with low-income countries at high risk.

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