Botswana

GABORONE, Botswana—The sudden deaths of some 330 elephants in northwestern Botswana earlier this year may have occurred because they drank water contaminated by toxic blue-green algae, the government announced Monday. ...

GABORONE, Botswana—Botswana’s government says it still doesn’t know what caused the deaths of hundreds of elephants in recent ...

Warning: This article includes content that some readers may find disturbing. The mysterious deaths of over 360 elephants ...

GABORONE—Botswana said on Friday it had received test results from samples sent to Zimbabwe to determine the cause ...

Hundreds of elephants in northern Botswana have mysteriously died over the last two months in what experts are ...

I hear sounds of lions roaring. They’re very near. And I’m in a tent! All that stands between ...

Botswana's government has lifted a ban on elephant hunting. The Environment Ministry issued a statement on the decision, ...

An alarming number of elephant carcasses have been discovered in aerial surveys across Botswana in what has been ...

The 1109-carat beast was discovered in 2015 by Lucara Diamond Corporation in Botswana, according to Sotheby's.

Diamond-rich Botswana avoided the dreaded resource curse and established a prosperous, stable democracy—but political turmoil has begun to ...

I’d been told that there was an incredible diversity and volume of wildlife in the country of Botswana, ...

In an index of 142 countries that measures personal freedom, the only country in Africa that shows a ...