Elephants spark hunting-ban debate

Villagers lose crops, income to marauding pachyderms, which now cannot be killed

Surveying her destroyed cornfield in northern Botswana, Minsozie Kasaira wishes for a return to the days of elephant hunting.

Villagers like Minsozie once benefited from rules allowing local communities to shoot a certain number of elephants each year. They often sold the quota to hunting companies, with hunting rights bringing in tens of thousands of dollars.