Thousands of wild animals have been included in the 2023 hunting list as Botswana releases a hunting quota for the next open season. Elephants will be among the most hunted animals with 336 giants set ...

Veins of deep blue and algae green water intersect around parched islands, stretching as far as the eye can see like a complex train map. As we fly deeper into the heart of the Okavango Delta, the ...

The guide starts up the Land Rover, then calls for attention from his excited passengers. "All right, We're going into the bush!" We're at the gateway to Botswana's safari country – one of the most ...

A changed landscape in Botswana's Mababe Depression is now a hot spot for wildlife year-round. Jessica Vincent is a London-based, award-winning travel journalist. Her work has appeared in publications ...

Botswana reinforces preventative measures to protect livestock from foot and mouth disease spilling over from neighbouring ...

(CNN) — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies. ”Twenty thousand elephants for Germany, this is ...

Months after 330 elephants inexplicably died in Botswana, officials identified the cause of the die-off: toxic bacteria in their watering holes.

Botswana, one of Africa's premier safari destinations, said it will ban commercial hunting of wildlife because of a decline in animal populations.The government has decided to "indefinitely suspend ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the ...

In April 2024, Botswana’s then-president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, made headlines for his government’s threat to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the United Kingdom so that Europeans could try living ...

Human-wildlife conflict has driven the decline of once-abundant species and is pushing others to the brink of extinction.