In addition to banning the big cats, Zambia has also closed hunting altogether for 2013. This move is related to the inability of the government to allocate the hunting concessions in a timely and equitable manner. Difficult and discouraging news to be sure. In essence, Botswana has closed hunting (still private land opportunities there), and now Zambia closes two of the Big 5 along with shutting down for a year. Hopefully, it is just for this year and they can figure out the concession allocation in time for 2014. The Zambia situation is quite similar to 2002, when they shut things down temporarily.
