Environmental News
- Botswana: New project to boost sustainable wildlife management and food security in southern Africa 03 Feb 2021 15:42 ReliefWeb FAO and the French Development Agency will support development of community conservancies in Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area of Botswana and Namibia 3 February 2021, Rome - FAO and the French Development Agency (AFD) today launched a new 3. …
- Coronavirus in Africa could reverse 30 years of Wildlife conservation gains, harming interconnected communities and livelihoods (By Edwin Tambara) 22 Jan 2021 12:34 African Press Organization Download logo By, Edwin Tambara, African Wildlife Foundation (www.AWF.org) For wild animals in Africa on the verge of extinction and the tight knit communities who protect them, COVID-19 is a specter, disrupting a delicate balancing act of survival for …
- High cost to wildlife from shark nets protecting S.Africa beaches 13 Jan 2021 06:44 Digital Journal "They're basically curtains of death," said shark diver Walter Bernardis as he reached over the side of his zodiac inflatable boat to pull up a net bobbing in eastern South Africa's subtropical waters. The 200-metre (-yard) stretch of …
- Ramaphosa is selling off South Africa’s iconic wildlife – and it needs to stop (By Jason Baker) 09 Dec 2020 14:23 African Press Organization Download logo By Jason Baker Should the president of South Africa be trading in protected species and pocketing huge sums of money from their deaths? PETA (www.PETA.org) released an undercover investigation (https://bit.ly/3oBOk6q) exposing …
- Desert wellness spa to open in the heart of Botswana wildlife haven @WeAreWilderness #Africa #Botswana #desertwellness #spa #wellbeing #ecotourism #wildlife #nature 07 Dec 2020 09:40 Leisure Opportunities In April 2021, a secluded wildlife safari camp in Botswana will reopen, unveiling revamped facilities plus an all-new luxury desert spa with stunning views of the movements of mega herds of Elephants. DumaTau Camp has been open since 1997 as a part of …