[Zhang Fei]

[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.]

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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.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

30 years ago Botswana was prime Safari Country. Agriculture and light Industry?

When you’re looking at $100,000 to legally hunt 1 elephant there’s no way agriculture or light industry can put that much into the country’s economy.

What’s the kill ratio?

1 out of every 1100 elephants.

If we’re going to preserve African Wildlife we can’t do it crowding a few onto comparatively small game reserves.

Safari IS the right Industry for Botswana. It works.

They have, or had, ample game populations and space for them.

If you get caught in the bush without proper licenses, well, you’re quite likely to become food for the African Sanitary Corps. From the Hyeanas on down through the birds to the ants.