Recently, five elephants including one wearing a research collar, were killed in Botswana’s Ngamiland by a wealthy hunting party.  This has left the local people in that region outraged because President Masisi has lifted the hunting ban on elephants as a method to reduce human-elephant conflict. 
 
Hunting elephants is not the solution to reducing human-elephant conflict.  There are many simple strategies to reduce this conflict that do not involve the killing of elephants.  These strategies have already been implemented in regions of Botswana where humans and elephants coexist.
 
On a global scale, the allowance of hunting elephants in Botswana suffices the appetite of only a small percentage of people who would go to Botswana to hunt, compared to a much greater percentage of tourists who would travel to Botswana to see elephants in the wild.
 
Resolving human-elephant conflict by allowing elephants to be hunted will only intensify their rapidly declining population.
 
Please continue to share this petition.  The message we are spreading needs to be HERD!
 
In deep gratitude,
Nicole @WildForChange