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 ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

Botswana received nearly $4 million from last year’s hunting season despite UK efforts to ban African wildlife trophies ...

combined with widespread human land-use have increased human-elephant conflict in northern Botswana. Visible impacts (e.g. crop/property damage, injury/fatality) of elephants on human well-being are ...

Africa's overall elephant population is declining due to poaching but Botswana, home to almost a third of the continent's elephants, has seen numbers grow to around 130,000. Categories: Health ...

The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...

Botswana’s hunting revenues nearly doubled in 2024, earning $4 million—up from $2.7 million in 2023—despite rising ...

GABORONE, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Botswana, home to nearly half of Africa's wild elephants, has offered to donate 8,000 of the giant mammals to Angola, an official said Tuesday. Botswanan Minister of ...

A combination photo shows dead elephants in Okavango Delta, Botswana May-June, 2020. Toxins in water produced by cyanobacteria killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year, officials said ...