I"™m looking for three hunters to join me and some old time Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert outside of Ghanzi, Botswana to go hunting in June this year.
I used to live in Botswana and worked on several CBNRM (Community Based Natural Resource Management) projects. Since my return to the US in late 2005, I"™m continuing to help the D"™Kar Trust, one of the community trusts I consulted for, with a new project. The project is called TRAKS (Transferring Ancient Knowledge and Skills), the program will allow the old Bushmen who really hunted for survival to pass their knowledge on to younger Bushmen. The core idea is to put these rapidly disappearing individuals together with younger Bushmen who've never hunted and get them to hunt together. These teams would work as trackers and guides for international bow hunters and survival courses, plus conduct their own cull hunts using traditional methods. This project is vitally important to the Bushmen and all humans since the Bushmen"™s hunter-gatherer culture is the foundation for all other cultures, and it"™s rapidly fading. The Bushmen have few hunting opportunities so their unique and precious knowledge is not being passed on.
I"™ll be going back to Botswana this summer to help implement the project. I"™ll be spending several days meat hunting with the men at D"™Kar Trust"™s 18,500 acre Dqãe Qare Game Farm in July. I"™m also hoping to get three bowhunters who"™d like to spend 12 days trophy hunting with the men. The trip starts on June 16th and ends on the 27th. Included in the price of $5,500 is:
"¢ All food, drinks, daily laundry, and accommodations
"¢ 2 animals (trophy kudu and your choice of a blue wildebeest, red hartebeest, or gemsbok) with additional animals available at standard trophy fees
"¢ Services of guide, trackers, and skinners
"¢ Field prep of trophies and delivery to shipping agent in Maun.
"¢ Transfers to and from airport in Maun
Also available at no added cost during the 12 days is a two day bushman survival experience. Stay in traditional huts and learn how to find food and water in the bush, tracking techniques, and bow and arrow making.
Anyone interested visit
http://www.african-excursions.com/indexbow.htm
Thanks,
Peter Durkin
Bowhunting with Bushmen in Botswana
