by Adam Cruise | Mar 4, 2024 | News
Peta Thornycroft, Telegraph Scores of elephants have been killed for their ivory in Botswana in recent months as a southern African country once considered a sanctuary for wildlife has seen a surge in poaching. Poachers are thought to have killed at least 60 elephants...
by Adam Cruise | Dec 14, 2023 | Commentary
By Africa Geographic A recent spate of arrests of elephant poachers in Namibia has shone the light on an apparent increase in poaching of elephants in Botswana and led to questions surrounding the efficacy of anti-poaching systems in the region. Africa...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 23, 2019 | News
By By Charlie Taylor – BBC Botswana will hold general elections on 23 October and as a BBC World Questions debate found out in Gaborone, diamonds and elephants could play a sizeable role in deciding who wins. The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has won...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 27, 2019 | Petitions
Botswana is home to one-third of the entire elephant population in Africa. Elephants are constantly in danger of poaching, habitat loss, and more human-inflicted threats. That’s why humans should be doing all they can to protect them. Yet, Botswana has in...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 25, 2019 | News
By Lance Witten – Independent Online How many people can say the stability of their country rests on another species? Well, for Botswana, it seems elephants are at the centre of an environmental conundrum, that’s also the apparent centre of a political spat...
