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Elephant Havens co-founder Debra Stevens said, “nine times out of 10,” elephants in Botswana are orphaned due to human-wildlife conflict. Many of the foundation’s orphans were made so ...
Coexisting with elephants in Botswana can be challenging. No other country is home to more elephants than Botswana. Oaitse has founded an NGO to teach people how to live with the enormous creatures.
Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe together account for more than half of the African bush elephant population. Botswana alone is home to about 130,000 bush elephants – about half of ...
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi is threatening to send 20,000 elephants to Germany after the European country’s environment ministry called for limiting imports on hunted trophies ...
Globally, the African elephant population was obliterated by the ivory trade in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Botswana, however, elephant numbers have more than tripled since the 1980s.
Botswana's elephant population has doubled in the past three decades.(Foreign Correspondent: Matt Davis) "Being given meat is like you are treated like hyena or scavengers," Oaitse says.
Botswana has also developed an Ivory Stockpile Management system to ensure that its stockpile is well managed. The development for this Elephant Management Plan began in June 2018 with four ...