Do you know what that means for them - that their individual hunting licenses have been revoked..?
Things were very challenging for the bushmen for a while, but they've recently won a series of court cases against the Botswana government and have since been allowed to re-enter the nature reserves and access water there and hunt there. As a people they are still walking the razor's edge between extinction and assimilation, but they're holding on.
A friend of mine, naturalist and tracker Jon Young, spends a couple months each year visiting with one particular tribe and he tells me for many years they were embarrassed to be bushmen, but within the last five years they've started to be proud to be bushmen again.
