Oshinka Tsiang Forget Wynter Mmolotsi, forget Abigail Khumoyame, the spotlight this week is on Moemi Batshabang, the Director of Wildlife and National Parks. He is the man whose responsibility it is to put his finger on the upcoming Elephant Management Plan and plan of action that will emerge post a stake holders’ workshop in Maun. Whether he will stay long enough in the civil service to see through its implementation is debatable. Odds are he may not. But be that as it may, the plan he will...

Oshinka Tsiang When Modiri Obuseng, the chairman of the Mmadinare Development Trust, stood up to comment at the recent CBNRM forum in Maun, he was responding to the mouth-watering figures nonchalantly thrown about by representatives from other Community Based Organisations, (CBO) and other officials, of money either evidently squandered or raised by CBOs from their hunting quotas. The shock to him was not that such money could be squandered, but that such money could be realised from hunting...

Modiri Obuseng Chairman of Mmmadinare Trust says there was undue pressure to sign the CT27 contract with Lotsane Safaris Oshinka Tsiang The Chairman of Mmadinare Development Trust, Modiri Obuseng has vowed to fight to get the controversial trophy hunting contract agreed with Lotsane Safaris terminated or reviewed because of irregularities surrounding its signing. Obuseng first raised the alarm at the recent Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) forum in Maun where he decried...