Editing Hunting (section)

====Other species====
According to [[Richard Conniff]], Namibia is home to 1,750 of the roughly 5,000 black rhinos surviving in the wild because it allows trophy hunting of various species. Namibia's mountain zebra population has increased to 27,000 from 1,000 in 1982. Elephants, which "are gunned down elsewhere for their ivory", have gone to 20,000 from 15,000 in 1995. Lions, which were on the brink of extinction "from Senegal to Kenya", are increasing in Namibia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/opinion/a-trophy-hunt-thats-good-for-rhinos.html|title=Opinion – A Trophy Hunt That's Good for Rhinos|date=2014-01-20|newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Conniff|first1=Richard|access-date=27 February 2017|archive-date=9 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709075518/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/opinion/a-trophy-hunt-thats-good-for-rhinos.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In contrast, Botswana in 2012 banned trophy hunting following a precipitous wildlife decline.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20544251|title=Botswana to ban wildlife hunting|date=29 November 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=19 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919171716/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20544251|url-status=live}}</ref> The numbers of antelope plummeted across Botswana, with a resultant decline in predator numbers, while elephant numbers remained stable and hippopotamus numbers rose. According to the government of Botswana, trophy hunting is at least partly to blame for this, but many other factors, such as poaching, drought and habitat loss are also to blame.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/18/botswana-natural-wonder-brink-of-catastrophe|title=Drought and poachers take Botswana's natural wonder to brink of catastrophe|first=David|last=Smith|date=17 June 2011|website=The Guardian|access-date=27 January 2019|archive-date=27 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227100649/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/18/botswana-natural-wonder-brink-of-catastrophe|url-status=live}}</ref> Uganda recently did the same, arguing that "the share of benefits of sport hunting were lopsided and unlikely to deter poaching or improve [Uganda's] capacity to manage the wildlife reserves."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/23/uganda_ends_sport_hunting/ |title=National Geographic Society Newsroom |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313012029/http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/23/uganda_ends_sport_hunting/ |archive-date=13 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2020, Botswana reopened trophy hunting on public lands.<ref>{{cite web|title=Botswana to Kickstart Elephant Hunting With Auction This Week|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/botswana-to-kickstart-elephant-hunting-with-auction-this-week|date=3 February 2020|publisher=Bloomberg|access-date=11 November 2020|archive-date=26 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126210517/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/botswana-to-kickstart-elephant-hunting-with-auction-this-week|url-status=live}}</ref>