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CHAPTER 38:01
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND NATIONAL PARKS
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
Preliminary
PART II
National Parks, Game Reserves, Sanctuaries and Private Game Reserves
5. Declaration of national parks
6. Control of national parks
7. Entry into national parks
8. Certain acts in a park prohibited
9. Regulations in respect of national parks
10. Mining in a national park
11. Offences in a national park
12. Game reserves and sanctuaries
13. Private game reserves
14. Regulations in respect of reserves and sanctuaries
PART III
Wildlife Management Areas and Controlled Hunting Areas
15. Wildlife management areas
16. Controlled hunting areas
16A. Declaration of controlled fishing waters
PART IV
Protected Game Animals
17. Protected fish and game animals
PART V
Hunting and Capture of Animals
18. Partially protected game animals
19. Hunting and capturing of animals generally
21. Use of landholder's privileges for profit
22. Record of animals killed in exercise of landholder's privileges
23. Permission or authority of owner or occupier of land
PART VI
Game Farms and Ranches
24. Game farms and ranches
25. Regulations in respect of game farms or ranches
PART VII
Licences to Hunt
28. Single game licence
29. Small game licence
30. Special game licence
31. Issue of licences
32. Number of licences and animals
33. Disqualification for grant of licence
35. Refund of licence fees
37. Loss or destruction of licence
38. Register of animals killed
PART VIII
Permits
39. Permits that may be granted by the Director
40. Permits which licensing officer may grant
41. Conditions applicable to permits
42. Appeal to the Minister
PART IX
General Provisions with Regard to Hunting
45. Prohibition of certain activities in specified areas
46. Killing of animals causing damage
47. Killing of animals in self defence
48. Killing of animals by accident or in error
49. Hunting or capturing of animals without permission of land owner or occupier
50. Conveyance of loaded weapon in certain circumstances
51. Killing of dogs in certain circumstances
52. Prohibition of certain activities in specified areas
53. Permission in respect of tribal land
54. Wounding of animals
55. Hunting or capturing by night
56. Hunting or capturing during close season
57. Unlawful methods of hunting
58. Elephant and buffalo hunting
59. Killing of lion or leopard
60. Sale of animals or parts or eggs thereof
61. Purchases of animals or parts or eggs thereof
PART X
Export and Import of Animals, Trophies and Meat of Animals, and Sale and Manufacture of Articles from Trophies
62. Export and import of animals, etc.
63. Export duty to be paid
64. Dealing in trophies
65. Trophy dealer's licence
66. Records and returns by trophy dealers
PART XI
Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn
67. Killing of elephant and rhinoceros
68. Ivory or tusks imported into or acquired in Botswana
69. Transfer of ivory
PART XII
Government Trophies
PART XIII
Evidence, Prevention and Detection of Offences and Forfeitures
72. Evidence and presumptions
73. Powers of wildlife officers, gate attendants and police officers
74. Erection of road barriers
76. Admission of guilt
77. Magistrates' courts' special jurisdiction
79. Second or subsequent offence
PART XIV
General
80. Destruction of animals by wildlife officers in certain circumstances
81. Hunting in forest areas
82. Keeping of animals
83. Rights of ownership in animals
84. Powers of licence and permit holders etc. in respect of other hunters
85. Personation of officers etc.
86. Delivery of firearms to gate attendant
87. Freedom from liability
88. Directions by Minister
90. Power to suspend, etc., operation of Act
91. Amendment of Schedules
93. Payment of fees to district councils
94. Repeal and saving
First Schedule - National Parks
Second Schedule - Game Reserves and Sanctuaries
Third Schedule - Wildlife Management Areas
Fourth Schedule - Controlled Hunting Areas
Fifth Schedule - CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
Sixth Schedule - Protected Game Animals
Seventh Schedule - Game Animals and Birds
Eighth Schedule - Maximum Number of Animals which may be Killed by virtue of Landholders' Privileges during any one Period Specified
Ninth Schedule - Dangerous Animals
Tenth Schedule - Notice of Intended Prosecution
Act 28, 1992,
Act 16, 1993,
S.I. 31, 1994,
S.I. 61, 1995,
S.I. 86, 1995,
S.I. 28, 1999,
S.I. 65, 2007,
S.I. 80, 2007,
Act 15, 2023,
S.I. 122, 2023,
S.I. 16, 2024.
An Act to make further and better provision for the conservation and management of the wildlife of Botswana, giving effect to CITES and any other international convention for the protection of fauna and flora to which Botswana is, from time to time, a party, to provide for the establishment, control and management of national parks and game reserves, and for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.
[Date of Commencement: 11th December, 1992]
PART I
Preliminary (ss 1-4)
This Act may be cited as the Wildlife Conservation and National Parks Act.
(1) In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—
"animal" means any vertebrate, invertebrate animal or fish, bird and the eggs and young thereof, but does not include a domestic animal or bird, or the eggs and the young thereof;
[15 of 2023, s. 2]
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