Maun, Botswana — Europe's plans to ban the importation of trophy hunting products are unjust and pose a huge threat to conservation that centres on the people in southern African rangeland countries, wildlife ecologists say.
Prof Fynn said past colonial social injustice in conservation, such as land grabs and strict conservation enclosures, forced displacement and exclusion of local communities from their natural resources. In addition, Prof Fynn said the ban on trophy hunting products by Europe will hit local communities hardest in Botswana and the whole southern African region.
"This undermines efforts to undertake wildlife conservation for the people by the people. Communities can play a critical role." Local communities, governments, NGOs, researchers and most tourism players fear that if the bill goes through in the UK to ban trophy hunting and trophy products, there will be a knock-on effect in Europe.A hunting trophy ban in Italy is also a possibility.
Southern African countries under the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area are home to about 230,000 elephants, thanks to good wildlife management practices and community-based natural resources initiatives.
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