KAZA, Botswana receive praise as elephants make red list
Friday, April 09, 2021
Botswana’s hunting season opened this week Monday, amid optimism from the hunting safari companies and local professional hunters, despite last month’s decision to put elephants on the red list.
It has been a dry period between 2014 and 2019 as the country was under a hunting moratorium. However, President Mokgweetsi Masisi lifted the ban, largely driven by the desire to see communities benefit from wildlife resources.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...