Just as
The Hunting Report was going to press the third week of July, news broke that Botswana had announced a ban on "all" hunting. The news broke on the online media outlets Mmegionline and eTurboNews. You can read their stories yourself, but they state that the Government of Botswana is in the process of banning hunting throughout the country in favor of photographic safaris. The reason given is a "catastrophic" loss of species populations over the last 15 years, as shown by a study conducted by Dr. Mike Chase of Elephants without Borders. The articles go on to list some of the species, all of which are plains game species no longer on quota in any hunting concessions. Elephant is conspicuous by its absence in the articles. That's because elephant in Botswana continue to increase in population, and quotas for these animals have been increased. In fact, additional permits have come up for auction two years in a row now.....
