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Botswana is home to more than 33 per cent of Africa’s savanna elephants Print edition : January 15, 2021 T+ T- A herd of bull elephants in the Savuti region of the Chobe National Park (11,700 sq. km) in Botswana. Photo: S. Murali A bull in an overused habitat. Bulls who are responsible for the death of trees from ring barking and uprooting may have a daily range of 15-20 km from water-available areas. Photo: S. Murali Watching wildlife from cruising boats is popular on the Chobe river. Photo: Mike Johnsingh A debarked baobab tree. The elephants debark and feed on the fleshy interior ...

Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. – from Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins penned Inversnaid, his famous cri de coeur about the need to protect wilderness in 1881, at a time when his Victorian-era, early industrialised Britain was experiencing significant social and environmental change. Hopkins was remarkably prescient in his warning, although his poem was focused on a 19th-century small rural community on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland...

Opinion - The new dawn in social media in unifying masses 2020-12-11  Kennedy K. Mabuku Since time immemorial, Namibia and Botswana have been intimately and harmoniously linked by their history and geography that has shaped their past, engaged the present and had a hopeful and promising future.  While the preceding is true, it is also necessary to insist on the fact that these countries share a rich cultural heritage in language and family settings. Recently, this connection and bond has seemed to be threatened and decaying away after the killing of three Namibians and a Zambian national...