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It isn’t, but the issue enhances the NGOs’ money-raising capabilities.

Instituting new legal means of trading ivory would create opportunities to put poachers, illegal ivory trade syndicates and the animal right groups fundraising industry out of business.

The Botswana rural communities recently said that “hunting is the largest and booming industry that we have ever known in the 21st century.”

They want to review it at committee stage where it is now.

In Namibia’s Anabeb Community, wildlife ‘told’ the local residents to abandon cattle production. There, the benefits from wildlife are greater than those from cattle.

The same can occur for this new artificial ivory — a chemically compounded material spun on a 3-D printer into the shape of an elephant’s tusk or a specific product design.

Much of that sympathy is directed towards Africa’s big five and nothing raises the level of sympathy more than opposing the culling of elephants.

Where there was no access to basic health, international hunting revenue has supported the construction of Masoka Clinic.

In this remarkable example of human-wildlife coexistence in Botswana, animals are also constructing respectable senior citizen homes.

Almost nowhere in pro-international hunting and wildlife-rich Southern Africa has a senior government official ever single-handedly cancelled a legal and approved hunting tender.

Mr Miaennies said that the Khomani San Community is so underdeveloped and lacks one of the most basic necessities for humans — clean drinking water.

The communities’ demands for benefits from natural resources are supported by South Africa’s constitution.