Okavango Express Media
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- October 20, 2022
- 379 views
Reconnection Of Elephant Populations In Southern Africa Vital
A new study by the University of Pretoria, Duke University and Elephants Without Borders has highlighted the importance of reconnecting elephant habitats by opening safe corridors for elephants dispersal in…
Boni Boniface
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- October 7, 2022
- 251 views
Habu Project Reforms Bushmeat Poachers
Computer Scientist, Joel Kangootui (29) grew up in a cattle post setting learning the craft of tendering for cattle at a young age. Kangootui comes from Ovaherero tribe who are…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- September 28, 2022
- 337 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- August 12, 2022
- 261 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- August 12, 2022
- 342 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- August 2, 2022
- 457 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- April 7, 2022
- 262 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- April 6, 2022
- 372 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- March 25, 2022
- 269 views
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…
- Sustainablity & Tourism
- March 18, 2022
- 419 views
Kgaga, The First Motswana To Own Safari Company
Kenson Kgaga is the first Motswana to own a Safari company and to become a professional guide. Kgaga is also revered for founding the Botswana Guides Association, a radical association…
