Botswana Elephant hunts

[Finkelstein]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ban-on-hunting

Wonder what this will do to the price of an elephant hunt? Especially if you do not take the ivory or trophy?

[Antlion]

The lift on the ban is good. There were many communities dependant on these hunts as a source of livelihood.

[TStone]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ban-on-hunting

Wonder what this will do to the price of an elephant hunt? Especially if you do not take the ivory or trophy?

It will probably never be cheap...

[Finkelstein]

It will probably never be cheap...

Bloomberg speak of a price of $45000.

[Finkelstein]

These guys say $21000, but it is in Zimbabwe

https://www.africanskyhunting.co.za/pricelist.html

[Finkelstein]

https://www.bookyourhunt.com/Tour/90...ComboHunt=True

$14000

[Finkelstein]

Botswana with the drought is having a elephant famine on hand

[Brenneke]

Botswana with the drought is having a elephant famine on hand

Something of a crisis ( in case you missed the news )



Over 400 Botswana elephants killed in mystery mass die-off

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/arti...-mass-die-off/


Botswana's government is stalling efforts to get to the bottom of 350 mysterious elephant deaths, conservationists say

/www.businessinsider.com/botswana-stalling-on-investigation-into-mass-elephant-death-2020-7?IR=T

[Finkelstein]

Its hunger and dehydration as far as I have heard

[CorditeCrazy]

all coupled with a fair amount of overpopulation of ele too. I'd love to hunt elephant, it must be quite exhilarating to get up close