UB Academics Endorse �Shoot-To-Kill� Policy

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Two University of Botswana (UB) academics have argued that the controversial ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy is a legitimate conservation strategy.

In one of their journal articles, their commentary piece reflects on the efficacy of Botswana’s ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy, its effects on communities neighbouring parks, and on cross-border relations. “It asks whether this policy should be adopted by other Southern African states, particularly South Africa, to combat poaching,” they write in their commentary piece contributing to the debate on green militarisation.

The authors are Goemeone Mogomotsi, a legal officer in the Department of Legal Services at UB and Patricia Madigele, a research scholar specialising in Environmental Resources Economics at the Okavango Research Institute, UB, where she coordinates the sustainable tourism programme. Their journal article titled ‘Live by the gun, die by the gun’: Botswana’s ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy as an anti-poaching strategy’ was published in the South African Crime Quarterly last month.

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