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.
[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.]
While Botswana is roughly the size of TX, 70% of it is desert. Using the remaining land for a forest reserve seems a little excessive. Botswanans should propose to conservationists that they sell them as many live elephants as they want, based on a price of $1 per pound of large and dangerous wildlife. That way these conservationists can establish forest reserves in their home countries to keep these species in the numbers to which they would like to become accustomed. Even with expensive safaris, I can’t imagine that a forest reserve is a more profitable use of land than either agriculture or light manufacturing.