Whose Elephants? Conserving, Compensating, and Competing in Northern Botswana

摘要: While conservationists and politicians applaud the recent growth of Botswana's elephant population, farmers residents northern Botswana struggle to live with elephants who destroy crops threaten livelihoods. The state's response has been implement a narrowly applied compensation policy that reinforces government control over wildlife while communities affected by so-called human–elephant conflict demand increased rights deal problem themselves. In this way, represent contested ground between state local can only be fully understood considering experiences views those them as well national context in which management decisions are made. This article focuses on hidden costs attempting elephants, framing contestation ownership political is increasingly focused generating tourism revenues expanding conservation territories.