ACE ON Natural Resources Today I will focus on what should be done to save Batswana from predators, and leaving them impoverished. The issue of predation on livestock in Botswana is complex and contentious, and it has been challenging to determine how best to reduce livestock losses without adversely affecting wildlife welfare and biodiversity. These challenges mirror those throughout the world wherever predators and livestock co-exist and affect livelihoods, food security, biodiversity conservation, and animal welfare. Farmers have been protecting their livestock for centuries by fencing and kraaling to prevent the risk of losses due to predators. It is clear that the predator “problem” is an economic, or potential economic, problem to the livelihood of livestock farmers. The solution therefore needs to be at least partly economic whereby incentives will negate the predator persecution by livestock farmers The conservation of the biodiversity process of predation has inherent value to conservation, i.e. as a natural process it has value in itself as well as its role in natural eco-systems. • In interaction with animals it requires humans to act ethically, and as such, to treat all animals humanely. • The economic imperatives of farmers managing their risks, inclusive of the economic…