Nature & Wildlife
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 the unmistakable signs of water.
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Conservation Through Travel: How Botswana Leads in Sustainable Safaris In today’s world of mindful travel, more explorers are asking how their journeys impact wildlife, ecosystems and communities. The term “sustainable tourism” is everywhere—but not every trip that claims to be conservation-focused delivers on its promises. That’s why researching your travel company matters. The good news?
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Botswana is one of five adjacent countries within whose borders lies the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, also known as KAZA, the world’s largest transboundary conservation area. While KAZA is essential as the stronghold of half of Africa’s elephants, it is also home to significant percentages of the continent’s carnivores, including lions, leopards, cheetahs and wild dogs.
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A Botswana safari during the green season ticks all the right boxes: optimal wildlife viewing, stays in secluded and luxurious safari camps and opportunities to photograph Southern Africa at its most lush.
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By Bas Huijbregts, WWF African Species Director for the Wildlife Conservation Program, and Jake Sokol, WWF Senior Director of Philanthropy of the Eastern Region “Look at that strange rock!”
Conservation
Wildfires. Global warming. Floods. Pollution. Mass extinctions. With the 24-hour news cycle constantly spouting negative headlines about the state of the planet, it’s easy to feel down, especially during the winter months.
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At its essence, southern Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area is a study in convergence, confluence and coexistence. Connecting vast savannahs, grasslands, marshes, woodlands, saltpans and scrublands across parts of five nations, the 106-million-acre region known as KAZA lies in Africa’s Kavango and Zambezi river basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.
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Larger than Austria and Germany combined and nearly twice as big as the United Kingdom, the enormous KAZA (Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area) lies in the Kavango and Zambezi River Basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.
Nature & Wildlife
After many years of writing for WWF and our efforts to create KAZA, a giant protected area spanning five countries in southern Africa, some might think there wouldn’t be anything left for me to learn.
Nature & Wildlife
Southern Africa’s “green season” (December – April) is the off season for tourist travel—which makes it a great reason to visit then, as I recently discovered on Natural Habitat Adventure’s trip Botswana: Kalahari, the Delta & Beyond, which I took through part of WWF’s KAZA landscape during this past December and January.
Nature & Wildlife
Africa’s Great Migration has long been a symbol of the continent’s abundant wildlife. The Serengeti Plains fill with millions of wildebeests and other animals, all traveling from the Ngorongoro region in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara in Kenya in search of food and water as the seasons change.
