Only a shoot-to-kill policy will keep SA’s rhino safe, argue Botswana academics
SA should adopt a "shoot-to-kill" policy to show that it is serious about halting the country’s rhino poaching crisis. This is the controversial view of two University of Botswana academics‚ who raised a storm by urging SA to adopt the highly controversial policy. Writing in the latest issue of the SA Crime Quarterly journal‚ Goemeone Mogomotsi and Patricia Madigele argue that the policy‚ adopted in Botswana in 2013‚ was a "legitimate conservation strategy" and "a necessary evil" to protect rhinos from extinction. Mogomotsi is a legal officer in the University of Botswana’s department of legal services‚ while Madigele is a resource economics scholar at the university’s Okavango Research Institute. They argue that the policy has reduced poaching levels in Botswana by sending out a message that if anyone wanted to poach in SA’s northern neighbour‚ it was possible that "you may not go back to your country alive". "We believe parks are war zones and that rules and principles of war ough...
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