10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2013
At the time, I was an active volunteer in an organisation soon to become the BirdLife Botswana and have noticed that Brown, Forbes and Symes quoted only two out of five Botswana observations accepted by the Rarities Committee, so I wrote to the Vulture News editor, suggesting that I write a short note on all five observations.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. The annual number of rhino poached in South Africa last year rose to 1,215, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told a media briefing in Pretoria two weeks ago. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2014
Several years passed on and my home was now under the southern sky, on the outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana, not far from the Ngotwane River. The Kozara route (7.8mi, top) and the Veliko Ratno Island circumnavigation route (4.3mi, left; source: Google Earth ).
Critter News
APRIL 20, 2012
King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt. Whilst not illegal, it shows a complete disregard for his 'subjects' and total contempt for his role as 'Honorary President of WWF Spain'.
Critter News
AUGUST 16, 2008
It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.
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