10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2012
Secretarybirds seem more crane than raptor as their four-foot frames stride across the open plains of places like the Makgadikgadi Pans of Botswana. Secretarybirds counter this by being very careful when killing snakes and ensuring that the prey is dead before eating it. So long that they have to crouch to drink or pick up food.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Africa), Hwange (Zimbabwe) and, recently, in Chobe national park in Botswana (the one that was considered so safe that the Clintons have visited it as a presidential couple)!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2015
I saw these individuals in Imfolozi Game Reserve, where they were hanging around a kill. I was told by some researchers that in Botswana trackers watch for this species when looking for Painted Wolves (or African Wild Dogs) as they follow packs to snatch up prey and scraps.
Critter News
JULY 26, 2012
King Juan Carlos may be the King of Spain, but he is no longer the honorary president of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Spain due to his hunting and killing of elephants in Botswana, Treehugger reports. It's not like Spain has enough problems now, it has to have an idiot king. From EcoRazzi.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide. 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.
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. Apparently it isn't the first time the King has been shooting big game in Africa, or elsewhere (Apparently he killed a bear in Russia a few years ago too).
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2013
This 15,000 sq mi Kalahari desert reserve straddles the South African and Botswana border regions and was created when two national parks were merged – these being South Africa’s Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana’s Gemsbok National Park.
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