Posted by Botswana Safari News on May 21, 2019 | No comments
Can
President Mokgweetsi Masisi ask to present Botswana’s case to the UK parliament
on Botswana's plans to restore trophy hunting?
Former South African President
Nelson Mandela addressed the UK parliament twice in 1993 and 1996 and Ethiopian
Emperor Haile Selassie in 1954. Fast forward to 2019, there is a heightened
campaign against trophy hunting in UK so the question is: Can Masisi asks to explain
our case before UK parley? Is it possible?
If UK campaigners can present
issues that directly affect us before their parley why can’t we be given a
chance to make our position known to their lawmakers in UK as well?
On Friday, Michael Gove, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs invited anti trophy campaigners to present their position to him
on whether UK should ban trophy hunting imports in to UK. The campaigners
argued that UK is a big hunting market and banning imports there can help stop
the extinction of endangered wildlife species.
Should such a law pass, (at the moment that’s a
doubt,) how will it impact our returning trophy hunting industry? On Saturday one commentator observed about
the UK campaign: “As proponents of
sustainable utilisation we find ourselves on very thin ice. Our warnings of the
effects the banning of sustainable utilisation will have on Africa's wildlife
will be used by the animal rights movement against use as they will blame the
ultimate extinction of species on us as the world's government did not heed
their warnings and acted to late in banning sustainable consumptive use.”:
Like the saying goes: “'If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain.'
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