A government witness in the Bushman court case admitted yesterday that there was no evidence that Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve had been hunting using guns and vehicles, or hunting too many animals.
Testifying in the Bushman court case in Botswana yesterday, the government's expert witness in ecology and wildlife management said he felt it unnecessary to advance scientific reasons to back up the eviction of the Bushmen.
A professor who has been a fierce critic of the lack of democracy in Botswana is to be deported. Professor Ken Good lost his appeal against deportation earlier today, and was taken from the court by plain-clothes police.
Botswana's Director of Wildlife Joseph Matlhare said yesterday in court that wildlife officials working in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve were allowed to keep chickens, but the Bushmen were not.
A Brazilian judge has reinstated orders protecting an uncontacted Amazonian tribe following international protests.
The Bushmen court case continued yesterday with the judges ruling that Joseph Matlhare, former Director of Wildlife, should proceed with his evidence.
Seven nomadic Nukak, one woman and six children, have been wounded by a grenade blast in south-east Colombia.
The evidence of the Assistant Director of Wildlife, Jan Broekhuis, concluded yesterday after nine gruelling days in the witness box.