even overcrowded trees get pruned to improve the output quality Elephant is revered in Africa as totem animal for many tribes but we agree we need to cull to maintain the species less it dies from lack of food from overrun land use activities .the SDGs tells it all. I am amazed at how many elephant management experts there are in the Western World.
But I am not a regular one of any of these kinds of hunters – except I have hunted (very rarely) for meat for time to time. In my country we have only 0,7 children per couple (statistically). THAT FACT TOO is discussed in the book. The elephants ignored the soft hum of this light aircraft’s engine overhead. Botswana considers allowing big game hunting, culling elephants 2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: A herd of elephants leaves a drinking spot in the Mababe area, Botswana, September 19, 2018. I also noticed many dead kudu and eland bulls which may or may not be due to destruction of their habitat by elephants. In Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park – where I headed the management team that reduced that national park’s elephant population from 5000 to 2500 in 1971/72:The killing operation itself was carried out by three (hand-picked) highly expert game-ranger elephant-hunters, hunting in unison as a team and shooting at point blank range. If the ecosystems (comprising soils, plants and animals) are not stable and well-balanced, they will eventually collapse; and when they collapse so will whatever eco-tourism structures that have been constructed upon them. I am not involved in the trophy hunting safari business. Now we have more advice from a well-known South African, John Varty, who has never conducted an elephant culling operation in his life – but who, none-the-less, has all the answers to Botswana’s massively-excessive elephant population management problem.Botswana currently suffers from a gross over-population of elephants that started some 60 years ago. Fences have their uses in modern-day wildlife management.Varty is correct in saying that Botswana is a beautiful country with an abundance of free-ranging wildlife.
It's one of the world's last sanctuaries for African elephants. I am amazed at how many elephant management experts there are in the Western World. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I never hunted for trophies. And they do die!!! But now, Botswana says, its population of the animals will be fair game for hunters. What is YOUR experience like – that makes you so confident that you believe you have the right to pontificate so negatively on this subject, as you do.I would like to suggest that if you cannot be constructive in your contribution to get out of our faces and let us get on with job that needs doing!Ron, you speak the absolute Truth- thank you!! THE WILD LIONS ARE O.K. So what YOU are doing by running your mouth out with obscenities, is castigating something that you do not understand and that does not exist; and thereby you are denying the relief of poverty that WILL achieve exactly what YOU want to achieve. This was, perhaps, because we killed every elephant in every breeding herd that we tackled; none escaped wounded; none escaped unwounded.With regards to the observation that elephant-proof fences “cut off elephant migration routes”.
Or they die. A DRY SEASON IS A NATURAL ANNUAL PHENOMENON.
Global warming (by man) is a myth. In southern Africa we have no elephant poaching problem (at least poaching is not adversely affecting our elephant populations). Botswana will soon be a desert if elephants are not controlled.it is just common sense, Some of the NGOs have too much to answer to the people of the South, Countries must decide n themselves and conserve their ecology in good shape,You have the exact right understanding and mentality to project science-based wildlife management philosophy in its proper context. So, these lesser animals have to ‘somehow’ find enough food in this plantless desert to stay alive. With this on mind, i thought i would write and offer a forthright (if gratuitous) perspective of my own.As a young adult, i moved to UK and spent a good few years adjusting to the different cultures here.
Lactating mothers are the worst affected, and as their milk dries up, so their baby calves – which are dependent on mother’s milk for survival during their first three years of life – are abandoned. Mr Varty’s observations about fences and other game animals, however, might well be valid – and Botswana has experience with this phenomenon. Mr Khama is himself a tourism-orientated businessman. So, let’s stick to the ball we know – and kick the right one to get our answers. And the three of us As far as the remaining elephants “losing trust” with man – after an elephant population reduction exercise was over – all I can tell you is my experience in this matter. MAYBE WITH THEIR ‘PRODUCTION’ EXPERTISE AND MY WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT UNDERSTANDING, MAYBE WE CAN DO SOMETHING ‘SPECIAL”. In southern Africa our elephant populations are between 10 and 20 TIMES too many – and OUR concerns are NOT about saving a few elephants.