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Shoring up its defences

An amendment to deny

Eviction of tribes by the Bostwana government draws criticism

Crown’s folly

WWF>> Vote • Spain/Botswana

UNITED NATIONS

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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

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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 …

Water Doctors

BOOK>> HEART OF DRYNESS • by James Workman, Walker and Company • US $25

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

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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

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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 …

Eye in the sky

Satellite data can help understand how animals migrate

Bushmen's letter to president

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 …

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

The real magic beans

Drumstick seeds can clarify water up to 99.5 per cent

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

Bead's eye view

Glass beads reveal ancient Indian Ocean trade networks