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Reflections on the Birds of Botswana
While I’m not a hardcore birder—I don’t routinely wake at the crack of dawn to spend time with our feathered friends—I always enjoy getting to know a region’s bird life. Admittedly, I was attracted
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Carnivore Stories from Botswana
Botswana is one of five adjacent countries within whose borders lies KAZA, the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, the world’s largest transboundary conservation area. While KAZA is important as the stronghold of half of Africa’s
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Botswana’s Okavango Delta: The Beating Heart of KAZA
Our Cessna was 5 minutes north of Maun, Botswana, when the landscape changed dramatically. Gone was the dry savanna scrub that had defined the Kalahari and so much of Botswana. In its place were
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Traveler Story: Abu Camp in Botswana
Deep within Botswana’s vast Okavango Delta, the 445,000-acre private Abu Concession shelters Abu Camp, a six-tent safari camp tucked into the unspoiled African wilderness. As the original elephant safari experience in Africa, Abu gives
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Impala Reflections
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected impalas lined up at a water hole. Photographer Patricia Rosen took this
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Encountering Lions in Botswana on my First Trip to Africa
Like many people I have always dreamt of traveling to Africa. After spending the last 15 years working in international development and conservation, I’ve had the wonderful opportunities to travel extensively in the Americas
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Cheetah Snooze
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a sleepy cheetah. Photographer Matthew Ricker was on safari in Botswana watching elephants in
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Travels Through the Okavango Delta and Gomoti
I awoke in the morning refreshed and ready to explore on a Botswana safari. As the sun peeked through my tent and I completed the normal morning rituals, I thought about the noises I
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