by Adam Cruise | Dec 11, 2019 | Commentary
By Don Pinnock – Daily Maverick When President Mokgweetsi Masisi opened up Botswana’s rich wildlands to hunting, it helped gain him the essential rural votes he needed to get re-elected. But the ‘unethical’ hunting of a collared elephant has the local San community,...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 16, 2019 | News
By World News Forecast Diamond-rich Botswana elects its National Assembly, the body that chooses the country’s president after the vote, with the country’s reputation and the long reign of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in jeopardy. Sluggish economic growth and...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 3, 2019 | News
By DUMA BOKO- Foreign Policy The country’s government is rolling back wildlife protections and endangering media freedom and the rule of law. It’s not uncommon in African countries for opposition politicians to be harassed and their freedom to campaign curtailed. But...
by Adam Cruise | Oct 2, 2019 | News
By Boniface Keakabetse, Mmegi Online The announcement by government that hunting would be reintroduced, prioritising Batswana for this season, drew much excitement. Five years after the hunting moratorium caught many unawares, the doors for direct sustainable use were...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 21, 2019 | News
By Xinhua GABORONE, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — Botswana opposes attempts to remove option of sustainably utilizing wildlife, a senior official in Botswana’s ministry of environment, natural resources conversation and tourism said Friday. Botswana will continue to...
