“Elephants are being killed at a rate of 5 an hour, lions at 5 a day and rhinos at a rate of 1 every 7 hours”

Farmers in Botswana are allowed to shoot these predators at random, to protect their valuable livestock, ensuring that they do not suffer any losses incurred from these predators. The hunting practices and retaliatory killing by the farmers resulted in a tragic loss of the lions lives in the rural areas of Botswana.