Poaching, selling of illegal bush-meat on the rise

This illegal game meat market is fed from the high incidence of poaching in some parts of the country, said the chief accounting officer for ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism Elias Magosi.

“Our ministry has found out that there are secret places for bush-meat market. Some of these poachers include some Batswana and foreigners. The painful thing is that some members of the community know these poachers and they are working with them. This is common in areas like Okavango where our anti-poaching unit has few workers,” Magosi told the PAC.