That's a real nice lechwe!

One unfortunate thing about the red lechwe, however, is that is widely transplanted to game ranches. I have seen them on ranches not just in South Africa but in the deserts of Namibia.

The latter is a rather gross injustice to the red lechwe, which is a swamp-dwelling animal, these days only native to the Okavango and Chobe regions of northern Botswana. It's normally found either in the water itself, or very close to the water. In it's native habitat it's more diffcult to hunt, both because the flat swamps make it harder to stalk, and because of wading the swamps, which sometimes include crocodiles and other interesting stuff.

The reason so many lechwe are found on game farms is, of course, the desire of many hunters to collect one.


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