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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
The world burns. But oil exploration continues. It could cost the earth. And local communities are already paying the price.
… in the Kavango region of Namibian and Botswana, in a project that Oilprice.com calls … in Namibia’s Kavango Basin - upstream from Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, one of … translate to financial gain in Namibia and Botswana. ReconAfrica stands to benefit from …
Campaign groups on the verge of leaving international diamond trade body because of failures to prevent military takeovers of mines, worker deaths and systematic smuggling
… regimes and armed insurgency groups. NEWS Botswana admits bushmen were evicted for …
The massacre of elephants for Asian ivory trade is driving the iconic African giant to extinction, writes Lewis Evans. But the 'military response' is both brutal and ineffective, all the more so as it excludes and alienates the indigenous communities who are the best defenders of nature and wildlife. The simplistic message of 'Last Days of Ivory' is both damaging and dangerous.
… many funded by WWF and the EU . Likewise in Botswana, Bushmen are criminalised for … in Cameroon, Soliga in India, and Bushmen in Botswana, from the land they have successfully …
The trade ban on rhino horn is not working, writes Keith Somerville. But non-lethally and sustainably harvested rhino horn can earn income to encourage breeders, pay rangers and anti-poaching teams, provide surveillance and supply wider benefits that will gain the support of people around parks, reserves and ranches.
… black rhino . Both species are also found in Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. … likely abstention or possible opposition of Botswana and South Africa. A much more …
Two thirds of Africa's lions have been lost in 35 years, and would-be hunters are increasingly shooting captive, farmed and often tame lions in 'canned hunts'. Claims are that this helps to preserve wild lion populations - but Dominic Dyer fears the reverse is the case.
… for Wildlife conference begins in Kisane, Botswana today, here's something for delegates …
Australian mining companies have a poor track record operating in Africa. Australian uranium company Paladin Energy has now put two of its mines into 'care-and-maintenance' and bankruptcy looms. But who cleans up the company's mess in Namibia and Malawi, asks JIM GREEN
… petitions gathered from South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia, Madagascar, …
Once derided as backwards, the southern African San tribe’s love of nature is now bringing them real rewards, as well as offering an insight into how humans can survive with little or no water. Ruth Styles travelled to meet them in Namibia
… is close to the Namibian border with Botswana on the western edge of the Kalahari …
In the first of a three part blog in which Les Carlisle joins a team of translocation experts, he discovers the buzz of darting and blindfolding a rhino, whilst considering the absurd fact that their very existence is threatened due to the growth of an inert keratinous material on their heads ...
… part of the anti-poaching unit operated in Botswana, will receive training in the use of …
With 27,000 African savannah elephants a year illegally killed for their ivory, the species is in peril, write Ross Harvey & Alexander Rhodes. Now international action at CITES and the closure of domestic ivory markets are attacking the ivory trade at both ends. But we must also give our full support to 'elephant neighbor' communities.
… with an unconditional commitment by Botswana to uplist its elephant population …
Giraffe numbers have fallen from 140,000 in 16 years to just 80,000, writes Matt Hayward, and sub-species in East and West Africa are close to extinction. However trophy hunting has led to big population increases in private game reserves in southern Africa. To secure the giraffes' future, beware of simplistic narratives.
… numbers on wildlife ranches in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and a recent study …
Two of Asia's three rhino species are 'critically endangered', writes David Tosh, yet the lion's share of rhino conservation resources is lavished on Africa. The reason is simple: Africa's rhinos generate more cash from tourism. But should this really be the point?
… reliant on safari dollars as a country like Botswana. The African rhino is therefore a …
African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive 'plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have developed over countless generations.
… The countries involved as ARIPO members are Botswana, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, …
Media furore over the shooting down of a helicopter in Tanzania masks a bigger picture of commercial hunting and evictions of indigenous tribes in the name of wildlife, writes Navaya ole Ndaskoi. It's time to rethink 'white saviour' mythology and develop new models of conservation that respect and engage with African communities, recognise their achievements, and inspire a new generation of conservation heroes.
… Friedkin started a game hunting company in Botswana in 1972. In 1989, he chose to hunt in …