Botswana is endowed with a great variety of wildlife species, including a more than 100 000 elephant population, scores of impala, greater kudu, giraffe, antelopes, zebras, wildebeest and many others, according to authors Thomas Butynski and Wolfgang von Richter.
The oversupply of game in this country has ensured that the Botswana people earn their living from a variety of use of wildlife, as sometimes a single elephant feeds an entire village, and proceeds from European trophy hunters is equal to scarce but yet sustainable job opportunities. It is even worse for the populations in the remoter parts of the country where no economic activity is possible except