For sale: 100 Namibian buffalos, buyers must 'bear all risks'


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  • Friday, 02 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: A Cape Buffalo rests with her newborn calf born at a zoo in Pretoria, South Africa, January 1, 2000. REUTERS/Juda Ngwenya//File Photo

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has put 100 of its buffalos up for sale in a bid to ease pressure on grazing land after a drought.

The government said it would auction the powerful wild animals to anyone at home or abroad who could meet welfare and legal criteria. But its newspaper advert for the sale warned: "The buyer will bear all risks."

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