UNESCO vigilant on potential impacts of oil exploration in Namibia and Botswana on World Heritage properties
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has been made aware of petitions by civil society groups received by the UNESCO office in…
Category: Conservation & Environment
Botswana in renewables drive, but coalbed methane and coal still in the mix
Botswana has published its plan to develop its power sector to 2040, with coal dominating initially before being replaced by…
DTCB to equip its Gaborone factory with a 950 kWp solar power plant
The Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTCB) has recently begun the construction of a solar photovoltaic power plant for its offices…
Changes in Okavango Delta ecosystem kill scores of fish
The Department of Wildlife and National Parks has attributed the mysterious death of countless fish in the Okavango Delta to…
Botswana bullish about renewables sector
Botswana is mobilising resources and partnerships with the private sector and other countries in support of renewable energy initiatives. As…
Botswana lines up clean energy projects
The government has lined up six clean energy projects with the potential to produce 395 megawatts of electricity in the…
Botswana, US launch Roof Top Solar Programme
The U.S. government, through USAID Southern Africa‘s Energy Program, has collaborated with the Ministry of Mineral Resources, Green Technology, and…
Maun Waste Warriors: waging war against litter
There’s no doubt that Botswana has a litter problem. Right across the length and breadth of the country, the streets…
Botswana probes as dozens of endangered vultures found
Authorities and conservationists have launched a probe after dozens of critically-endangered vultures were found dead from suspected poisoning in Botswana’s…
Concerns over fracking plans on Botswana-Namibia border
Reports suggesting that a Canadian oil and gas firm is planning to start hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in one of Africa’s…
Major solar proposal could diversify economy, reduce costs for Botswana
A proposed five gigawatt (GW) solar power programme to be developed jointly by Botswana and Namibia would become a landmark…
Coal-mining in Hwange could desecrate KAZA
A recent decision by Zimbabwe to allow Zhongxin Coal Mining Group and Afrochine Smelting to start coal mining activities inside the…
Project launched to bolster Botswana’s geoscience data
Full tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) data company, Bell Geospace and the Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) have launched the Mineral Prospectivity…
Botswana: Solar and thermal power plants planned for construction by 2026
Four new solar and thermal power plants are planned for construction by the government of Botswana within the next six…
Botswana could become a producer of cleaner, cheaper electricity
As the Coronavirus continues to take its toll on global economies, the pandemic is exposing all manner of deficiencies across…
Botswana, Namibia to build 5,000-MW solar project
Namibia and Botswana are set to sign an agreement to jointly develop a solar project of up to 5,000 megawatts…
Savage Kingdom: Look who’s winning the renewable energy battle in Botswana
Fans of the Nat Geo TV series Savage Kingdom are in for a treat, as Season 4 of the real-life…
Elephants successfully translocated to Nxai and Makgadikgadi to address overpopulation
In the first operation of its kind between the Department of Wildlife and National Parks and Limpopo Limpadi Private Game…
Botswana ranked World’s No 1 country in Wildlife Conservation
Botswana tops the list of countries that are doing the most to protect wildlife. It has the highest conservation land…
Botswana: BPC will designate an IPP for its 100 MWp solar PV project in September
The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) plans to designate the company responsible for generating 100 MWp of electricity from two solar…
Rhino anti-poaching update: no further incidents since lockdown
The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism has given an update on rhino poaching in northern Botswana since…
The death of white rhino ‘Serondela’ a blow to Botswana’s conservation efforts
The recent rise in the brutal killing of rhinos at Chief’s Island in the Okavango Delta has led to the…
Botswana commends Namibia, Angola’s commitment to Okavango River UNESCO co-listing
Botswana is pleased by Namibia and Angola’s commitment to the co-listing of the entire Okavango basin as a UNESCO World…
Chobe Lodge leads Botswana’s Responsible Tourism efforts
In 2012, Chobe Game Lodge was among the first 10 properties to be awarded the highest Ecotourism level in the…
EcoExist launches “Elephant Express” buses to help curb Human-Wildlife Conflict
Uncharted Africa Natural Selection, EcoExist, Okavango Community Trust, @halfwayngami, SATIB and DWNP are collaborating on a project aimed at improving…
Drought-prone Botswana launches climate-smart agriculture tool
Drought-prone Botswana has developed a tool to promote the use of smart agriculture techniques to beat the challenges posed by…