Four years ago, 350 elephants died near Botswana's Okavango Delta, but the cause of their deaths was a mystery. It turns out that blue-green algae fatally poisoned them. All the elephants died ...

BERLIN — Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi threatened this week to send 20,000 elephants to Germany after its Environment Ministry floated the idea of banning the import of trophies from ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it's not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, the much larger ...

Jumping between two tinnies in the middle of Africa’s Okavango Delta is not for the faint of heart, but it has to be ...

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 ...

including elephants, hippos, and 2,000-strong herds of buffalo — a prize meal for lions. “The Mababe Depression is the only place in Botswana where you can see buffalo herds of this size ...