Humanity’s birthplace: why everyone alive today can call northern Botswana home

Earliest population of modern humans arose 200,000 years ago in an area that covers parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe

Hundreds of elephants are mysteriously dying in Botswana – a conservationist explains what we know

Poaching, revenge killing by locals and natural death do not seem to be the case. Could it then be disease? The information is still …

CITES CoP 2019: No more trade in African elephants

Parties vote to restrict trade from Zimbabwe and Botswana. They can no longer be shipped to zoos and circuses worldwide

Interview: James Workman

Heart of Dryness Author James Workman talks about the Bushmen and how they hold the skill to quenching the world's thirst.   The official …

Botswana is humanity’s ancestral home, claims major study – well, actually …

Mitochondrial DNA comes almost only ever from mothers, so the story of its inheritance is much simpler than the histories of other genes

Conflict diamonds from Basarwa’s homeland in Kalahari go on sale for Valentine’s Day

The mine of Gem Diamonds lies on the traditional territory of Basarwa in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert. The government has been illegally …

How to make Africa food self-sufficient, again?

Africa is the only continent that imports more food than it produces. With ground reports from 10 African countries, Down To Earth's editorial …

Poor access to healthcare hits HIV eradication goal

UNICEF says its global goal of reducing new HIV infections in children by 90 per cent between 2009 and 2015 is still out of reach

Botswana elephants episode: There’s a colonial underpinning to conservation

Conservation should indeed be a global priority. But understanding of the complexity and colonial roots of this problem and the shocking double …

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks

‘Insatiable demand from the East, greed & lack of political will is enabling poaching across Africa’

Wildlife veterinarian Dave Cooper talks about poaching, effect of climate change and his experience with conservation 

Should ivory trade be legalised?

International ban on ivory trade has neither reduced elephant poaching nor the volume of the illegal trade. Is it time the trade is legalised? …

Elephant poaching rates vary across Africa: 19 years of data from 64 sites suggest why

Poaching rates are lower where there is strong national governance and where local levels of human development are relatively high

World Elephant Day: Why conservation efforts in Africa evoke opposing reactions

Uneven distribution of the jumbos across the continent has led to increase in human-wildlife conflict and loss of habitat

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

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Shoring up its defences

An amendment to deny

Eviction of tribes by the Bostwana government draws criticism

Crown’s folly

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