botswa na's new president, mokgweetsi masisi, was clashing with his predecessor, ian khama, especiallyervation. mike chase is close to the former president, so announcing a poaching crisis a few months into masisi's term in office was seen by some people as a political attack on the new president and sparked a storm of controversy. 0fficials admitted they spent only two days with mike chase, trying to verify findings that took two months to gather. then it got nasty. the president went on the offensive, saying it was the biggest hoax of the 21st century. i do not agree that has been a spike in poaching in botswana. but we were given government permission to visit one of four hotspots he identified. it suggested organised and co—ordinated poaching. soon you will notice for yourself that a pattern emerges, that most of the elephants were poached near seasonal waterholes. so the poachers would just wait for the elephants to come down and drink, and shoot them. yeah, here it is, here. 0n the nose, here. the last time you were here was when? i was here in september, four months ago. and at