by Adam Cruise | Feb 2, 2020 | News
By Judy Malone, The Globe and Mail Somewhere in Botswana is a dead elephant walking. He is an individual in his prime. Very few mature bulls today live to old age with tusks that sweep the ground, and nor will he. In January, he was sold to a trophy hunter at the...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 14, 2019 | News
By Phys.org Animal campaigners demanded on Friday that a Botswana hunter’s licence be revoked after an elephant was killed despite being protected, raising tensions over the country’s new hunting rules. Officials confirmed that an elephant wearing a...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 11, 2019 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain him the essential rural votes he needed to get re-elected. But the ‘unethical’ hunting of a collared elephant has the local San community,...
by Adam Cruise | Mar 28, 2019 | News
by Don Pinnock As tourism is a mainstay of Botswana’s economy, lifting the hunting ban could, the poll suggests, have severe economic consequences and damage Botswana’s international reputation. As the Botswana government rumbles towards the lifting of the ban on...
