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""At times security forces find it confusing to detect the difference between gunshots made by poachers and those made by trophy hunters when they shoot wild animals. When there are no hunters we will not have that confusion and it will help us deal effectively with poachers," he said."

Bull shit, I immediately thought, no keeping hunters out of the bush means there are no witnesses to elephant poaching.

Here is what was said in a comment to the article by a non-hunter. He obviously does not like hunting but has a reasonably balanced outlook and makes some excellent points, many of which hunters have also been saying:

Clay Wilson · Top Commenter · Works at Director International Wildlife Rescue

Unbelievable turn of events by Minister of Wildlife TK Khama brother to the president of Botswana.

I personally know this man and I would trust a snake oil salesman before I would him and he had no knowledge of whatsoever of how to manage the countries wildlife.

I have screamed it 1000 times trying to make people aware that Botswana had HALF of the entire population of wild elephants in the world. They are in this mans and his brothers hands.

In November it was perceived as great news that Botswana was going to ban trophy hunting. everyone was n the bandwagon congratulating Botswana for its excellent commitment to saving its wildlife and its outstanding knowledge and management in this field. A fact is that I worked with DWNP for 5 years and their management is extremely poor and unorganized, the wardens have no passion for the job and that's what it is for most of them, just a salary. They don't even have money to buy a spotlight to carry on their vehicles that are mostly run down in any case.

I can summarize this point in that in the 30 years I have been visiting Chobe not once have I ever seen a park warden patrolling in the park. Once they collect your money at the gate there is never a presence. Case closed.

Back to hunting by which by the way I am totally neutral on as there are so many cons and pros. When the ban was discussed I read between the lines and had inside information as to what was really happening. They were to stop hunting to remove the "eyes" from the remote areas so the Government can go in there in January and kill 70 to 80 thousand elephants for their own profit. Of course after that has happened then I predicted that they would start hunting back again.. No one seemed to care or understand what I have been trying to expose.

Of course there has been countless discussions and arguments about this decision which I will not delve into as its well documented. Of course the Botswana government has no problem with unnecessarily slaughtering its cattle as an excuse to fight foot and Mouth did disease that has been around for millennia ( something fishy there), they have no problem alienating their own people the Bushmen of the Kalahari as their land had diamonds and now they are using an extreme method of harvesting natural gas called Fracking, no one complains that the president builds his own airstrip and palatial country house getting land appropriated illegally and that they can deport or just simply murder someone if they have a different opinion . The list can go on. Botswana is rapidly turning into a police state. It sickens me that the world will just stand by and let it happen as it did in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Congo etc,etc, ect.

So back to this article on TK . It appears that they have stepped on their own tail again and he let the cat out of the bag to soon.

My main concern is the elephant population which I still believe is going to be slaughtered in January if it has not already done so. How can I stop it???????

Tk is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Differentiating gunshots from hunters and poaching?? Come on TK. They will just resort to poisoned arrows, poisoning the water holes and poisoning the carcasses so that all vultures will die so they cannot spot a carcass, never mind all the other animals that will eat of the poached meat that is left to rot and is such a waste.

I'm so disgusted I had to vent.

It's all too obvious why am I the only one exposing this?? As usual it will be conversation and not conservation and the elephants will be shot and trophy hunting will be back.
TK and HE you may do well, to kick start your brains.

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John aka NitroX

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