[marktwain]

Good for Botswana.

This is the proven way to protect wildlife populations.

Make them a valuable, renewable, resource that brings money into the communities affected.

When they have an ownership share in the elephants, they can afford to absorb some damage.

[Stevenc131]

Contrary to the propaganda in the West, elephants can be mean and very aggressive. The natives over there don’t have any means of defending themselves and they aren’t in love with elephants. I saw a segment on TV about 10 years ago where a tribal leader was lambasting an animal rights person, calling her a ‘white colonialist’ who didn’t know anything about native life in Africa and who cared more about elephants than people.

[rktman]

So, has 'peta' chosen to buy some elephant suits and infiltrate the herds in protest? 🐘😂

[hanamizu]

If you want to get an idea of what Botswana looks like, the “Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” an HBO series is now on YouTube. Lots of it was filmed in the bush.

[BluH2o]

My wife and I were guests at a couple of Botswana's highly rated game lodges a few years back. We are well traveled and this was one of our most interesting trips with out question.
Daily tours from the camps out into the Okavango Delta were rich with animal sightings. Saw all of the big five (as they are known in that part of the world) lions, leopards, the Cape Buffalo, rhino's and, of course, elephants. Close enough to see the interaction among elephants in their herd. A very large male elephant, who range independently, was hanging out in close proximity to our safari camp. Magnificent animal.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

If it pays it stays.

Game licenses pay for game cops.

No money for game cops, no game cops and the entire population is poached out of existence.

[M.K. Borders]

It has been my uninformed opinion for years now that folks who want to preserve elephants are doing them the most harm.

The solution up to now has been the destruction of the ivory trade. Governments of Africa routinely burn huge piles of ivory tusks in order to take them off market but in reality they only raise the value of the unseized tusks.

Fact is the price of ivory has gotten so high on the black market that a poor African farmer cannot afford not to poach elephants.

Want to decrease the pressure on the elephant herds? Dump all that seized ivory on the world market all at once and drive the price down to the point it no longer pays to poach.

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Get this and cut and paste it before National Geographic scrubs it from their site. It shows how the left is wrong about hunting.