Scorned!

The now all-too familiar calls for a boycott of local tourism are rising. The demonstration at our Washington DC embassy has presumably again taken place. The appeals to celebrities such as Ricky Gervais, Brad Pitt and Ellen DeGeneres are again being made.

The well-known dramatis personae of hostile media are again leading the charge, with the Independent in the United Kingdom calling the auction a “global conservation disaster”.Botswana’s good name, well and carefully curated over the decades, is again being blackened by the robustly coordinated and well-resourced enemies of wildlife sustainable use.