It has been a busy few months in the Caprivi

[ZANA BOTES SAFARI]

The last two months in Caprivi have been busy for us. We have hunted hard and found some good animals to harvest.
We have put in a lot of effort on anti poaching with our team and the NDF. Fishing poaching has become a problem. More and more Zambians have flocked to Namibia to start fishing poaching as great areas of the Zambezi and Chobe fishing resources have been depleted. Out effort on the Kwando and Linyati have been succesfull thus far. We are removing anything from 15 - 30 fishing nets a day. Only to find them back the after a few days.
It hard work doing all of these things but it would not be able without hunting and the funds generated from that.

Together with all this action animals have also started calmly returning. Elephant are crossing in in vast Numbers from Botswana of the last month. This normal this time of the year but the amount of elephant crossing over has picked up tremendously. That is always an encouraging and pleasant sight to see.

 

[gillettehunter]

Good pics. Seems like those illegally netting would eventually run out of funds for nets at the rate your picking them up!
Bruce

 

[WAB]

An easy way to remove fish nets is with old school straw bales. Toss them in the river upstream, they fill with water and just take the net with them when they hit it.

 

[375Fox]

Good pics. Seems like those illegally netting would eventually run out of funds for nets at the rate your picking them up!
Bruce

The nets are given away free for mosquitoes to prevent malaria. They just get repurposed from what I understand.

 

[ZANA BOTES SAFARI]

The nets are given away free for mosquitoes to prevent malaria. They just get repurposed from what I understand.

You are right. But the they have started using a cheap chinese one here also.
If they get caught by fisheries they pay a small fine and they are back at it the following day.