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Community trusts rise from hunting ban ashes

On-going power connection in Sankuyo PICS: KETO SEGWAI
On-going power connection in Sankuyo PICS: KETO SEGWAI

MAUN: Community trusts in Ngamiland are slowly recovering after being gutted by former president Ian Khama’s unilateral decision to ban all hunting, including safari hunting from January 1, 2014.

Khama’s decision then, took all the community trusts by surprise, and it led to their collapse as most were in areas unsuitable for photographic safari activities.

In defence of his preferred non-consumptive approach to conservation, which is not backed by any scientific research, Khama early this year made an impassionedly appeal to the British law-makers “to halt the reckless, cruel destruction of the world’s wonderful wildlife by nature’s enemies.”

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