Hallo, ich habe jetzt gesehen, dass der von mir in der Zuschrift zum Carlos-Thema erwähnte Artikel in der Ngami Times betr. Jagdverbot in Botswana durch googlen doch nicht so einfach aufzuspüren ist. Da die Debatte zur Jagdproblematik (verzichtbar) eine über gute und böse Menschen wurde, stelle ich hier den erwähnten Artikel ein, für an Informationen Interessierte:

Erschien am 04.04.2012 in der Ngami Times:
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THE END LOOMS FOR HUNTING
The new hunting season in northern Botswana is likely to be the last – and next season will also be the final one for the Tuli Block and southern Botswana. The government has banned hunting of wildlife, except apparently for elephants and on game farms, in favour of photographic safaris. It will be losing millions of Pula as a result of the move through VAT payments, training levies, bed night fees, and trophy fees. Hundreds of people – from hunters to safari employees and taxidermists – are expected to be out of work, and as a result it is widely anticipated that the economy of towns such as Maun and Kasane will be adversely affected. The government will also no longer be issuing hunting quotas, which is one of the mainstays of rural communities.
The authoritative “The Hunting Report” publication said last year that “hunting would be significantly reduced in Botswana, with plains game hunting continuing only on private ranches (but) we also reported that elephant hunting would continue under a special dispensation for ‘elephant management.' “Elephant is conspicuous by its absence from lists of animals (that cannot be hunted). That's because elephant populations in Botswana have been rising significantly, and, in the process, destroying habitat that many of these other species need. Most telling is that elephant quotas have not been reduced, rather they have been increased and more have come up for auction.”
In a statement to the publication on August 26 last year, the government said: “What is being done is to encourage photographic tourism and gradually limit but not ban wildlife hunting. It must be known that species with declining numbers will be considered for limited hunting while those with increasing numbers like elephants, will continue to be hunted within CITES framework.” The Ministry (of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism) said at the time there was no plan to ban hunting “and would like to assure all hunting safari companies and affected communities that live near wildlife management areas who continue to benefit from hunting.'No further confirmation of this could be obtained by The Ngami Times this week.
Lion hunting in Botswana was suspended in 2007 to allow the cats' population to swell as the Department of Wildlife said there was a dwindling number of lions in the Khutse Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) and the Kgalagadi Trans-Frontier Park, where conflict between humans and predators is on the rise. In the Kgatleng District the hunting of wildlife of all kinds has remained suspended since 1981.
The move towards photographic safaris has divided wildlife conservationists, some of whom argue that hunting quotas issued to the communities that live near wildlife management areas help empower and develop local communities. Usually the community sells the commercially valuable species such as elephant, zebra, lion and leopard to a private-sector partner. These species have no subsistence use for local people.
Valuable trophy (male) animals such as buffalo, gemsbok, sable, wildebeest and kudu are sold, while the females (meat value) and the lesser antelopes, such as duiker, impala and springbok, are retained for subsistence hunting. Hunting joint-venture agreements generate large sums of money at community level and substantial employment during the six-month hunting season from April until the end of September.
The tourism industry of Botswana was initially based on trophy hunting and all areas outside the national parks and reserves was divided up into concession areas to be tendered for by professional hunting companies for trophy hunting safaris. It is widely feared that the ban will allow for an increase in poaching, already widespread in many parts of the country, particularly the Chobe National Park and the Central Kalahari.
“The ban on hunting in Kenya 1976 resulted in 100 000 elephants being poached within a year,” said one hunter. According to the Endangered Species Handbook, Botswana earns US$100 million (about P750-million) a year from tourism, including trophy hunting.
In an interview published late last year the “Mmegi” newspaper in Gaborone, top hunter Harry Charalambous, of Maun, called for an increase in the quota for game hunting in the area, saying it attracts billionaires from Europe and America to Botswana. He said he hosts Russian billionaire and Chelsea Football Club owner, Roman Abromovich, every year for trophy hunting. Charalambous added he also pays approximately P10-million a year to four community trusts in Chobe, Sankuyo, Mababe, and Okavango from proceeds earned from trophy hunting. He told the newspaper he was aware that President Ian Khama “is not a fan of trophy hunting and is being lobbied by other interest groups to ban it in favour of photographic safaris.”
Editorial : Hunting banning is unnecessary
President Ian Khama's administration's body language on wildlife hunting in the past few years has increasingly become unmistakable. Indeed, the administration has never been ambiguous about banning hunting, and the local conservation bodies and the affected communities have equally been waiting for that Doomsday nervously and helplessly.
Even the assurances from the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism last August could not assuage such well-founded fears. The Ministry boldly stated that “the Botswana Government has no plan to ban hunting in this country and we would like to assure all hunting safari companies and affected communities that live near wildlife management areas who continues to benefit from hunting.” Seven months later, the same government is showing its resoluteness in effecting a wildlife hunting ban without even the courtesy of its now common insincere consultative processes.
This rushed and ill-advised decision appears to be based on some highly questionable survey done by wildlife ecologist Dr Michael Chase which concluded that the Okavango Delta has suffered “catastrophic” species loss in the past 15 years. At the height of the debate surrounding the controversial survey, one blogger noted that “apparently this man (Chase) took his surveys in downtown Gaborone.” We couldn't agree more. In its haste to find justification to satisfy the whims of the anti-hunting lobby, the government has stooped so low as to evoke inconclusive studies, which erroneously hold wildlife hunting responsible for species losses.
On the contrary, we believe the legal hunting quotas, which have been in place for many years, are a very useful wildlife management tool that can be improved on. They play an important role in the mitigation of human/wildlife conflict by bringing sufficient immediate income to meet the needs of communities living with wildlife. Botswana's wildlife management policy has always been premised on this practical understanding.
Should that policy be found to be wanting, then it calls for increased genuine public participation and debate for its review – and not the kamikaze route the government seems bent on transversing. That policy review will be better navigated with the active participation of the affected communities, local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as the Community-Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM), Kalahari Conservation Society, BOCOBONET and others.
The euphoria in both the local conservation and tourism sectors that greeted Khama's ascendancy to the presidency has since dissipated. Admittedly that euphoria was not misplaced as Khama was then considered a friend and the “father of conservation in Botswana” owing to his steely anti-poaching initiatives during his Botswana Defence Force (BDF) days. However, his conservation policies are increasingly lending credence to apprehensions that the country's time-tested conservation policies have been high-jacked by international conservation forces opposed to sustainable use of wildlife resources. These include such international NGOs as Conservation International and Peace Parks, on whose boards President Khams sits, which espouse protectionist conservation paradigm.
This is not the route we should be taking as a country.
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Interessant im Bezug auf die derzeit hier im Forum laufende Diskussion ist vor allem, dass die Elefantenjagd nicht von dem Verbot betroffen sein wird.