Botswana ...Graeme Bruce Pollock Today we started the closure of our concession , after 16 years of conservation in practice , what was a desolate area with no wildlife , we transformed with the funding from hunters into a good wildlife area with lots of buffalo and elephant and the associated predators such as Lion and Leopard. Our presence deterred poaching , we did not have a single poaching incident in 16 years , whereas the Nat Park next door lost elephant and rhino and is having to be patrolled by the military now, our company was able to carry out this responsibility with the funds from hunting. From funds from hunting we installed 7 waterholes and with a strict hunting policy of no hunting into breeding herds and only taking old mature males passed breeding we were able to build our buffalo herds into the hundreds. The many people who supported us have witnessed the incredible transformation, sadly this is about to be reversed as hunting is being closed and without the funds to operate the waterholes they will be switched off and as the buffalo, lions, leopard, warthogs, kudu and other water dependent wildlife born in the area do not know of any other water source they will not survive the drought or the coming of the rains in three months. Yesterday I stood and watched 300 buffalo come down to one of our pumped pans while all around the bush was a desert, the first to die will be the calves , and I wondered if the anti hunters had any idea of the catastrophe about to happen throughout Botswana due to their emotional ignorance . Well done anti hunters you closed hunting in Botswana I hope you are proud of the fact you will kill more animals in three months than 16 years of hunting, and thats before the poachers move in.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:13:53 +0000