Botswana Mulls Wildlife Diseases surveillance programme

By Boniface Keakabetse The death of 450 elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Delta in 2020 have ignited calls for an urgent creation of a wildlife diseases surveillance programme to avoid similar…

Vultures poisoned in Chobe National Park

Boniface Keakabetse   Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) has confirmed the discovery of 50 poisoned White- backed vultures at CH 1 in Chobe district. Ch1 is a community concession…

KAZA ELEPHANT SURVEY STARTS

Boniface Keakabetse Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) – wide coordinated aerial survey of elephants which is starting this month. The exercise  is first ever elephant count in the five…

LOCAL Conservation Organisations Lack Access to Funding

By Boniface Keakabetse Oaitse Nawa (47) is a qualified professional safari guide and founder of the budding conservation nonprofit, Elephant Protection Society (EPS).  Nawa founded Elephant Protection Society In 2018, an…

Baby Elephants Drink Goat’s Milk in Botswana

Boniface Keakabetse Elephants Havens Wildlife Foundation (EHWF) has found a sustainable way to feed orphaned baby elephants using goat’s milk to cut down the costly reliance on powdered human infant…

Natural Selection Participates in Wild Dog Conservation Project

Boniface Keakabetse Eco-Tourism Company, Natural Selection is engaged in a project which aims to prevent the spread of diseases – in particular Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) -between domestic dogs and…

In remembrance of conservation icon Veronica Roodt

Boniface Keakabetse Originally from South Africa, Veronica Roodt had spent 34 years in Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve where she was engaged in nature conservation.  The South African researcher and artist…

Botswana’s Imported Rhino Poaching Crises

Boniface Keakabetse Professor of tourism studies at University of Botswana Joseph Mbaiwa has challenged Botswana Government to learn from the Namibian community model of rhino conservation. Professor told The Okavango…

Okavango Delta polers adaptation to changing flood patterns important for wildlife conservation

Boniface Keakabetse  Adaptation to flood patterns and climate change is key to the sustainability of Mokoro (canoe) community poling tourism operations, a foundation of wildlife conservation and tourism in the…

Wilderness Safaris Equip a Borehole For Shokomokwa Residents

Shokomokwa residents near Shorobe village will now enjoy fresh water after Wilderness Safaris equipped a borehole at the settlement to provide for their drinking water. The project undertaken through Children…