21st April 2021 RAKOPS – As Parliament debated the Tourism Policy last week, stakeholders in the Boteti area embarked on a human-wildlife conflict alleviation project. A private company, Holistique Organics was constructing a ’belt’ called Elephant Deterrent Web at a cluster farmers’ area called Makhi Farms located between Rakops and Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR). A ploughing field belonging to one of the cluster members was sampled up for the project. The construction was led by the area’s farmers’ association in collaboration with the Boteti Rural Development Trust(BRDT). Birdlife Botswana, a Non-Governmental Organisation renowned for working with Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in empowering households came in as the project’s facilitators and advisors. So was the Technical Advisory Committee(TAC) represented by Department of Wildlife and National Park(DWNP) employees.