The country’s Environment Ministry is defending the January 29 auction as a conservation strategy, but conservationits say the move is based on false population statistics, disputed claims of human-elephant conflict and puts 3% of Namibia’s last elephants up for sale
Namibian elephants in Etosha. Conservationists estimate that between 73 to 84 percent of the government’s quoted elephant population figure consists of ‘trans-boundary’ elephants, those moving between Namibia, Angola Zambia and Botswana. They put the resident elephant population in Namibia at 5,688. They are worried that with 170 heading to the auction block, Namibia is losing 3 percent of its elephant population. Courtesy: Stephan Scholvin
Namibia To Sell Wild Elephants
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years covering the iconic elephant population. in 2016, he traveled exclusively with the great elephant census to see the plight of the animals firsthand. reporter: getting ready to ply in botswana s far north. an elephant ecologist has spent years counting savannah elephant from the sky. never before have we ever conducted a standardized survey for african elephants at a continental scale. all right. start counting. nice speed. nice height. well done. reporter: hundreds of air crew counted elephants in 18 countries across the continent. over two years. elephants 7. 7 elephants, right? reporter: flying the distance to the moon and then some. their results, more shocking than anyone imagined. we spent thousands of hours of count, flying over areas
with his face hacked away like that, that he met his end with people chopping away at his tusks. you ve grown up in this country. you are from botswana. what is it like to see these magnificent beasts killed like this? i don t think anybody in the world has seen the number of dead elephants that i ve seen over the last two years of the great elephant census. it becomes a lot more personal. we ll continue to check. reporter: to fight the war, botswana has mobilized the army. with more than 700 troops guarding its northern border. patrols spent days in the bush on foot, armed with a shoot to kill policy for poachers. they re up against a sophisticated enemy. looking for any sign of poachers, if they come across them, they re often highly organized groups of about 12 people. two of them could be shooters of them. and those shooters are