National Policy and Strategy for the Conservation and Management of Elephants in Botswana.

The aims and purposes of this Policy are to conserve and optimize elephant populations while ensuring the maintenance of habitats and biodiversity, promoting the contribution of elephants to national development, and to the communities within their range at the same time as minimizing their negative impacts on rural livelihoods. Moreover, the Policy wants to achieve the following objectives: To ensure the conservation of biodiversity throughout Botswana in the interests of present and future generations; To ensure the conservation of indigenous wildlife and habitat in National Parks and Reserves through minimal interference and where necessary by adaptive management; to involve communities, NGOs and the private sector in the realization of the full economic potential of wildlife resources outside the protected areas through sustainable utilization while maintaining the country’s biodiversity; to promote continuous research in all areas related to the management of wildlife resources in Botswana; to raise public awareness and appreciation of Botswana’s unique wildlife resources; to enforce the laws relating to wildlife resource.