“Despite elephants projecting a marvellous and beautiful scenic experience to tourists, they remain the most resented, feared and destructive wildlife species among rural communities coexisting with these gigantic and magnificent wildlife species especially in agricultural fields.”
This extract from the Botswana Elephant Management Plan and Action Plan could not be pertinent, principally in the midst of a debilitating drought of two consecutive years in most parts of the elephant range areas of Ngamiland, Chobe, Central and North East districts.
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