Pro-hunting group Safari Club International (SCI) recently published material entitled 'The Conservation Equation'. The claimed 'equation' is a simple one – that trophy hunting equals conservation of African wildlife and habitat. SCI's claims are based on a commissioned study by consultants Southwick Associates. This study estimated the economic benefits of trophy hunting in eight African countries – Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Southwick, 2015). They claim that the overall economic benefit from their estimated 18,815 trophy hunter visits is $USD 426 million to the studied eight countries, and that trophy hunting directly and indirectly supports 53,000 jobs.