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Fastjet suspends Victoria Falls-Maun route due to low bookings
Zimbabwe's low-cost airline, Fastjet, has suspended its flights from Victoria Falls to Botswana's tourism capital, Maun, just a year after launching the then seemingly lucrative route in June 2022....Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
International hunting makes Botswana communities improve wildlife conservation
Botswana hunting communities in the wildlife-rich Chobe District have decided to further improve wildlife and habitat conservation as well as community development, using the millions that they earned...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 13:43hrs | 17 | by Emmanuel Koro
Human wildlife conflict stops agriculture where hunting brings hope
Co-existing with wildlife can be both a curse and a blessing. The human-wildlife conflict has brought the century-old culture of agricultural production to a sad and difficult end in Bots...Published: 02 Dec 2020 at 18:21hrs | 3 | by Emmanuel Koro
Chinese Hwange blitz a minister's directive
THE shock decision by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to grant two Chinese mining firms the greenlight to drill and explore for coal in the giant Hwange National Park w...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US comedian Steve Harvey in Victoria Falls?
RENOWNED American comedian and television host Steve Harvey and wife Marjorie sneaked into Victoria Falls unnoticed where they toured the Rainforest yesterday. A video posted on micro blogging...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Botswana's elephants: myths vs facts
Botswana president, Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi, recently hosted a summit in Kasane for five southern African heads of state to forge a common regional elephant conservation policy. Since Masisi took over it...Published: 23 May 2019 at 07:52hrs | 8 | by Conservation Action Trust
Botswana teams up with Zimbabwe and Zambia in Kaza uni-visa
Botswana is considering being included in the Kaza uni-visa. Tourism Update reports Botswana and Zimbabwe held discussions around the visa inclusion to promote during the Bi-National Commissio...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 09:21hrs | | by traveller24
Ensuring wildlife and livestock coexistence vital for international trade and environmental protection
Victoria Falls - Addressing disease issues that are a result of the coexistence of wildlife and livestock is important to the international trade of beef. Given the importance of both the livest...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 13:17hrs | 14 | by FAO
Who’s the tortoise now? - Zim Vigil
On Friday Botswana celebrated 50 years of independence. There has been a transformation. In 1966 it was the poor relation in the region. Some of us at the Vigil recall travelling through Botswana by t...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Zim Vigil
Poachers kill 26 elephants in Chobe National Park
At least 26 elephants, their faces hacked off and their tusks removed, lay in congealing blood on Botswana's Chobe National Park floodplain. Poachers had killed them within sight of a Wilderness Safar...Published: 31 Aug 2016 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Don Pinnock
Welcome and Greetings from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.. 
Following on from our last blog, we spent two days in Chobe national park, Botswana's premier park for elephants. They say there are 40 to 60 thousand, we certainly saw hundreds. ...Published: 08 Mar 2011 at 11:21hrs | 2 | by Gill & Alistair
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