Quick update on the reopening of elephant...As I understand it and current as of this weekend, the Govt set an initial annual quota of 400 nation wide. Currently, they are only allocating less than 150. All 150 must be sold to Botswana citizens/permanent residents. All are non-exportable and the hunter must be a Botswana citizen/permanent resident. Hunter/shooter can NOT be a foreigner and again nothing can be exported.
The reason given is the Govt is going to ease back into this and ensure they have proper processes, controls and regulations in place before opening it up to foreign hunters. If and once they feel they have things properly in place then maybe in 2020, they will open quota up for foreign hunters.
They may get buffalo and some limited leopard and lion back open in 2020 as well.
