‘Hands off Botswana tourism’- Joubert
Survival
International (SI) has no right to internationally lobby for the blacklisting
Botswana as a tourism destination on allegations of overlooking the 2006 High
Court ruling for the relocation of the Basarwa in the Central Kgalagadi Game
Reserve, an award winning and celebrated environmentalist has said. The
National Geographic laureate, Derek Joubert, told Sunday Standard that by
bringing the blacklisting of Botswana’s tourism on to their agenda recently, SI
in his opinion “does not want a solution, they want the issue!” And neither
should they meddle in wildlife conservation programmes because it’s not their
business.
“Instead, SI
should offer support to local NGOs better equipped to work with government and
find solutions. When they step in, it increases the tension most specifically
because they are not well informed or they choose to misunderstand. However, in
general I see wildlife and even humanitarian issues as not country level but
global issues,” Joubert said. Regarding Community Based Natural Resource
Management (CBNRM) programmes, the Sani peoples of the Kgalagadi, protection of
endangered species and land degradation, Joubert said Botswana has done a
reasonable job of working out the issues, but a poor job of telling everyone
out it.
Regarding
Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programmes, the Sani
peoples of the Kgalagadi, protection of endangered species and land
degradation, Joubert said Botswana has done a reasonable job of working out the
issues, but a poor job of telling everyone about it.
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