THE CONSERVATION OF AFRICAN PLAINS GAME 357 



actually eliminating cattle and farming game, and it is said to pay. Around 

 the Queen Elizabeth National Park a plague of hippopotamus is at present 

 causing grave alarm. It is plaimed to shoot hippo on the margins of the 

 park; the minimum estimated crop being 1,600 per year, each of average 

 weight 3,000 lb. This wUl constitute a very considerable local meat asset. 

 In Uganda 30 per cent of all the meat sold comes from wild game. Cropping 

 is in fact inevitable and often desirable. Strict conservation prevents at the 

 same time other forms of land use in the neighbourhood. It may be well 

 more satisfactory to harvest game as a form of land use. 



