A ban on elephant hunting that had been imposed 5 years earlier it now permits the killing of 402 year promising a field day for sports hunters the government says the hunting should be allowed specifically in areas where elephants human conflicts are most common or what elephants we have learnt over time about elephants is that when the north is the danger they will not go to those areas and we use the controlled hunting to achieve that not to reduce numbers but to create better. So that people can continue about livelihoods i mean. Its been estimated that the elephant population will continue to grow significantly even if 400. 00 a kill each year. Trophy hunting is widely despised in europe for example but can it actually fulfill a useful function. Some conservationists think it can. The impact will be positive because botswana is absolutely committed to having any resources that it gets from sport to go to the communities rural botswanans live with 150000 elephants and they have not