Canned hunting banned

In a press release issued this week the ministry emphasised its intention to ban canned hunting, the practice in which large carnivores such as lions or other wildlife species are raised in captivity and hunted in small camps with no room for escape or to elude the hunter.

The ministry said that efforts to strengthen legislation to ensure that this “abhorrent and unethical practice does not find its way into Botswana under any guise”, were underway.