There has been a dramatic increase in elephant poaching in northern Botswana, with little official concern about reports of the poaching. An aerial survey in July revealed 19 poached carcasses, bringing the total to 105 since October 2023.
Contrary to President Masisi’s claim of reducing elephant numbers to reduce human-elephant conflict, trophy hunting generally takes place far from human settlements as was the case of the largest tusker trophy hunted in the remote NG13 concession in the far north of the country in 2022, where, incidentally, five of the recent poaching victims have been found.
"Whilst it may be the view that the figures are relatively low given the size of the population," says Rice,"we have seen this trajectory of engagement before: failure to address the problem internally, denial of the problem and evidence of seizures and arrests mainly taking place in neighbouring countries, for which those enforcement agencies are to be applauded.
This effectively means that the elephant population in Botswana is getting assaulted on two fronts – legal trophy hunting and illegal poaching. to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in response to a suggestion by the German Environment Minister to place stricter measures on the import or hunting trophies.
Poaching also tends to take place far from permanent settlements, where poachers enjoy less chance of detection. All the recently discovered elephant carcasses are in remote concessions, most of them in NG15 and NG18, along with a temporary poacher's camp containing tusks.Of the greatest concern, though, is that both poachers and trophy hunters are exclusively targeting bull elephants. All the elephants recently poached were bulls.
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