Ten years after promises of 'no mining' in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a $5 billion diamond mine opens a few miles from a Bushman village. Elsewhere in the Reserve, fracking is under way. And President Ian Khama, a director of Conservation International, denounces the Bushmen as 'poachers' and evicts them from their land.
… Botswana government lies exposed as $5bn … | 4th September 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Botswana Hunting Mining Fracking … Ten years after promises of 'no mining' in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a $5 …
Confronting the voices in favour of Botswana’s decision to lift the trophy hunting moratorium.
… Trophy Hunting Thought Leaders elephant_in_botswana.jpg Confronting the voices in favour of Botswana’s decision to lift the trophy hunting … have hit international media in the wake of Botswana’s decision to lift its moratorium on …
Botswana has now committed to a policy built on myths, while the rest of the world takes stock of the implications ecological crisis.
… Botswana brings back trophy hunting Ross … | 31st May 2019 News Trophy Hunting Elephants Botswana Change Makers elephant_in_botswana.jpg Botswana has now committed to a policy built …
Botswana's President Khama has banned all hunting - even for Bushmen who hunt to feed their families, who now face acute hunger. But an exception is being made for trophy hunters paying up to $8,000 to hunt giraffes and zebras.
… Botswana hunting ban leaves Bushmen to starve … | 2nd April 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Botswana Africa Hunting bushman-hunting.png Botswana's President Khama has banned all …
Thirty years after diamonds were first discovered in Botswana's Kalahari desert, the Bushmen have been evicted, and the first diamonds have gone on sale. Happy Valentines!
… The Ecologist | 14th February 2015 News Botswana Indigenous Peoples Mining … years after diamonds were first discovered in Botswana's Kalahari desert, the Bushmen have … tribe continues to face persecution by the Botswana government, which is intent on …
The anti-poaching conference in London today was disrupted by protests at the Botswana delegation - who call the indigenous Bushmen of the Kalahari 'poachers' and are forcing them into death camps.
… The Ecologist | 13th February 2014 News Botswana Indigenous Peoples Africa Wildlife … London today was disrupted by protests at the Botswana delegation - who call the indigenous … ban on Africa's last hunting Bushmen in Botswana - attended by Ian Khama, President …
Janine Roberts describes how De Beers cons the world into paying so much for its cheap, plentiful diamonds and turns a blind eye to the eradication of the oldest culture on the planet.
… September 2003 News De Beers Diamonds Bushmen Botswana Diamond Industry Blood Diamond … removal of an entire people – the Bushmen of Botswana, a people whose culture is the oldest … of a gram) of diamonds in the Orapa mine in Botswana it costs $9, in the Finsch mine in …
Botswana government won’t let the truth get in the way of its trophy hunting narrative.
… Botswana's belated submission to DEFRA Ross … Harvey | 17th March 2020 News Thought Leaders Botswana Elephant Hunting Trophy Hunting elephant-1209896_1280.jpg Botswana government won’t let the truth get in …
Sandy Gall describes the genocide the Botswanan government is waging to clear the Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
… News Genocide Kalahari Bushmen Land Rights Botswana Indigenous Peoples Politics And … Sandy Gall describes the genocide the Botswanan government is waging to clear the … Angola and Zambia in the north, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in the centre, and South …
Botswana's war on its indigenous population, the Bushmen of the Kalahari, has reached a new pitch, writes LEWIS EVANS. No longer content to arrest and intimidate them as they engage in subsistence hunting on their own land, the state has begun to shoot them from aircraft. These illegal, genocidal acts must stop!
… Botswana: shooting Bushmen from helicopters is … wrong! Lewis Evans | 16th August 2016 Comment Botswana Africa Indigenous Peoples Human … Hunting Tourism bots-bush-pc-03_cut.jpg Botswana's war on its indigenous population, …
Botswana, home to Africa’s largest elephant population, is proposing using meat from the endangered animal for canned pet food, charity claims.
… Reporter | 27th February 2019 News Elephants Botswana Trophy Hunting large_ww22456.jpg Botswana, home to Africa’s largest elephant … trophy hunting of elephants to resume in Botswana, home to Africa’s largest elephant …
Celebrities speak out after Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting.
… Celebrities speak out after Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting. … A demonstration against proposals by Botswana’s government to permit the resumption … those who handed in a letter addressed to Botswana’s President that has also been signed …
Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana will make 2014 the year to step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities. Joanna Eede reports ...
… Joanna Eede | 26th December 2013 News Botswana Kalahari Busmen Indigenous Peoples … of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana will make 2014 the year to step up … Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) was created in Botswana to protect the ancestral lands of the …
At the 'United for Wildlife' conference in Botswana, backed by princes Charles and William, Indigenous organizations from around the world are calling on world leaders to recognize tribal peoples' right to hunt for subsistence.
… 2015 News Indigenous Peoples Wildlife Crime Botswana san-hunter-cut.jpg At the 'United for Wildlife' conference in Botswana, backed by princes Charles and … Trade in Wildlife kicks off in Kasane, Botswana. The original meeting in February …
A Bushman from the Central Kalahari travelled 5,000 miles from his home in Botswana today to tell the Prince of Wales, ‘We're not poachers - we hunt to survive. Persuade Botswana to change its policies, or the Bushmen will soon be finished.'
… 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Hunting Africa Botswana Society jumanda-clarence-house.png A … travelled 5,000 miles from his home in Botswana today to tell the Prince of Wales, … not poachers - we hunt to survive. Persuade Botswana to change its policies, or the …
Botswana has been accused of sacrificing the Kalahari, one of the world's most precious wildlife reserves, to commercial fracking while ignoring the concerns of environmentalists and communities who could lose access to scarce water.
… Gas Indigenous People Kalahari kalahari.png Botswana has been accused of sacrificing the … air and water. Yet for more than a decade, Botswana , lauded as one of Africa's most … much public awareness on this aspect within Botswana at least. I know there's quite a lot …
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis
… Dennis | 1st March 2007 News Kalahari Bushmen Botswana CKGR FPK Campaigns Human Rights … Politics And Economics Investigates_22.jpg Botswanan police are refusing to allow … struggle for justice in the courts of Botswana, challenging their eviction from the …
In his third and final blog Les Carlisle meets the President of Botswana and witnesses the not-quite-to-plan release of the translocated rhinos into their new habitat ...
… blog Les Carlisle meets the President of Botswana and witnesses the not-quite-to-plan … General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana himself, coming to receive the rhino on behalf of the people of Botswana. Who would have thought that a …
Desperate not to offend the host country, the EU delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ignored a million-strong petition, a resolution from the European Parliament and the views of a large majority of African Range states and failed to give elephants greater protection
… range States. During the lengthy debate, Botswana, one of the four countries whose … to Appendix I," said Tshekedi Khama, Botswana Minister of the Environment, Wildlife and Tourism. "Although Botswana has previously supported limited …
Official admits government cut off water supply to force Bushmen out of the Central Kalahri Game Reserve
… Botswana admits bushmen were evicted for … | 19th August 2009 News Mining Diamonds Botswana Society Politics And Economics … out of the Central Kalahri Game Reserve A Botswanan government official has admitted …
In the second of a three part blog in which Les Carlisle joins a team of translocation experts, he travels across two Southern African countries in 48 hours with the aid of armed guards to safely deliver 6 rhino to their new homes ...
… rhino were due to be loaded for transport to Botswana arrived and we were at the boma early … them in the crates for the long journey to Botswana. The darting was a breeze, as usual, … we could reach the South African border with Botswana just as the border post was opening. …
As we celebrate 'World Wildlife Day' today, there's little for nature's best defenders to be glad of, says human rights lawyer Gordon Bennett. Indigenous Peoples around the world are routinely attacked, starved and cut off from the lands and wildlife they have protected for millennia under a flawed and brutal model of 'conservation'.
… Peoples Conservation India Cameroon Botswana baka-women-forest-cameroon-cut.jpg As … their way of life against their will. Botswana, Cameroon and India illustrate in … 'enforced' in defiance of these principles. Botswana - paramilitary force deployed against …
Botswana's Okavango Delta, one of the most iconic natural areas on the planet, has been listed as 1,000th World Heritage site today. The decision follows the advice of IUCN, UNESCO's advisory body on nature.
… World Water bee-eaters-okovango-cut.jpg Botswana's Okavango Delta, one of the most … body on nature. Situated in north-western Botswana, the Okavango Delta is a vast … birds and is key to the survival of Botswana's 130,000 elephants - the largest …
How we interpret nature can determine how we interpret ourselves, our societies - and our possible futures.
… Brendan Montague | 8th May 2023 | Comment Botswana Safari Biodiversity Evolution Charles … on safari in the Tuli Block National Park in Botswana. We take a few steps forward in the … in a remote area at the border between Botswana and Zimbabwe. England (where I live) …