Please help the bushmen of Botswana - very serious situation - petition

[nemesis]

This is a really, really terrible situation that I heard of via Survival International

While the Botswana government is denying the Kalahari Bushmen access to their own water, a private company called Wilderness Safaris has opened a luxury tourist lodge on their land, complete with bar and swimming pool.

One of the truly ironic things about this, that will surprise nobody here, is that Wilderness Safaris claim to be a model of ecological tourism and claim to be involved in supporting the local communities in the areas where they operate.  If they are involved in contributing to the welfare of local communities, how do they justify depriving the Bushmen of their water and building a swimming pool on Bushmen's land?



Bushman woman Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's well was disabled.


More on this story here

http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/wilderness-safaris

online petition here

http://www.survivalinternational.org/wilderness#signatures

Please pass on this petition and tell Wilderness Safaris that you won't be going on holiday with them while their lodge is on Bushman land without permission and the Bushmen are being denied water, and that you won't holiday in Botswana at all until the Bushmen are treated with respect.

[critter - a white non-ndn person]

That's horrible. Signed and posted to my FB.. and fwd to friends/family.

[Laurel]

I signed.

Wilderness Safaris FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000045003635

Survival International's FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/survival