Botswana resolute despite pressure from EU and African partners to lift hunting ban

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As if we needed more reasons to love Botswana.

By Gerhard Jacobs

Our neighbour’s minister of environmental affairs has spoken out about pro-hunting lobby groups within SADC member states and some European nations putting increasing pressure on Botswana to abandon the hunting ban it instituted back in 2014.

Tshekedi Khama, who’s also Botswana’s minister of natural resources, was chatting to folks in Maun last week when he reiterated his country’s commitment to the hunting ban, which has had the unintended effect of attracting migrating wildlife from neighbouring countries with poor environmental management policies.

“Botswana remains resolute in supporting the ending of the ivory trade. We have stopped hunting, but our neighbours still undertake trophy hunting and practice captive animal breeding,” Khama said, adding that his country will continue its ban on captive breeding and trophy hunting and will keep fighting to end the ivory trade.

“Our policy against wildlife hunting is working, that is why wildlife is relocating from neighbouring countries to Botswana. But now, the pro-hunters want to follow the wildlife here. As Botswana, we supported the ending of the ivory trade because we believe that getting rid of the trade will wipe out the markets too ,” the minister said.

Botswana went against South Africa and Zimbabwe when it called for the upgrading of elephants and lions from Appendix 2 to Appendix 1 of the Convention on Trade In Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the COP-17 summit held in Jozi.

Khama also defied Zimbabwe and ourselves when he called for the total criminalisation of ivory trading, while we voted with Zim – we shit you not – to allow for limited ivory trade.


Source: http://www.thesouthafrican.com/bots...-eu-and-african-partners-to-lift-hunting-ban/
 
Gerhard Jacobs (author) seems to like to bash the SA government. An easy target really.
He does not appear to understand conservation initiatives and the place hunting plays. Not a surprise.

I'm thinking a little trade embargo would help the Khama's personality adjustment get along.
 
Unfortunately they wil only realize the huge mistake they are making when the whole ecosystem has collapsed due to over grazing and habitat loss.
 
I myself think so much of this is based on them not wanting any white hunters hunting what they feel is owned by the local blacks. They do it in spite of the lose of jobs and to the health of the animals they will hurt long term. He is doing all because he can and no other reason.
 
These short sighted idiots will never be able to see that a legal sustainable trade in ivory or anything else is better for all concerned than banning things. How I wonder does Khama think that "getting rid of the trade will wipe out the markets too"? You may be able thru other means to get rid of the trade in a couple hundred years or so, but by then there will be no elephant left. His offspring can look back and say "see, we told you it would work". No more illegal ivory trade, due to no more elephant. Simple.
 

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