Chobe Park News
2009 Aerial Surveys: Counts to deternime abundance, distribution and trends
While in Chobe, you will not see many rangers other than the occasional ‘poacher patrol’, so you may wonder if anyone is keeping tabs on the trends within the park. The answer is ‘yes they are’. Many of the surveys are conducted from the air. One of the teams that help with this is... »
New Year’s day in Chobe National Park
The time to go to Chobe is the southern Africa winter months, which span from June until September. The summer (northern hemisphere’s winter) are the wet months. Many of you may want to know just what happens within the park during the ‘off season’ ? The following article was written By: Kelly Landen of... »
Elephants mourn the loss of a young bull
Chobe is not a zoo, but a living system. With all of the beauty, unfortunately there are also daily animal losses. This story will make use thing about how animals grieve. As you know, we support the work of Elephants Without Borders. The following article is a reprint from a blog story by Kelly... »
Unususal Sighting: A Chocolate-colored zebra foal
Zebra stripes are very variable - in fact every animal has an individual coat pattern that can literally be used as a fingerprint to identify individuals from year to year. Sometimes however this variation goes beyond individual or regional variation and throws out an anomaly. We’ve been thrilled to have our third so-called ‘anomaly’ at Vumbura... »
From Elephants Without Borders:Goodbye wishes to Elephant Ambassadors…
As you will see in our left side blog list, we support Elephants without borders. From time to time, we like to share some of the work they are doing in and around Chobe NP. This article was written By: Kelly of Elephants Without Borders on October 31, 2009 No Comment Elephants Without Borders’ (www.elephantswithoutborders.org) busy... »
Botswana joins Kavango-Zambezi conservation area
The following is taken from an article reported by MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE, a Mmegi Online Staff Writer. At a meeting hosted by Namibia recently, the countries developed a draft treaty, which provides the basis for national consultations with stakeholders. Besides Namibia and Botswana other countries in the venture are Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. At the Namibia... »
Botswana: Protecting Wildlife and Wilderness
Article copyright: Commonwealth News and Information Service (London) A guidelines manual and certificate system is in place to encourage tourism companies to comply with recognized environmental standards During the dry season in Chobe National Park, the third largest in Botswana, as many as 120,000 elephants migrate over 200 kilometers in search of rain and water. This spectacle... »
Chobe River Booze Cruise Video
A video from 2006 of a river cruise on the Chobe River. We think this 2 min. 30 sec. video gives one a good feel for the diversity of wildlife and the scale of the hers one will see on a typical afternoon ‘booze cruise” in Chobe National Park. Nice captures of elephants and... »
Leopard Mating season in Chobe/Moremi
October and the start of Spring brings mating for the Leopards as seen in this October 2009 Earth-Touch.com video: »
Initial ‘Vision 2016′ Report on Botswana Wildlife
Headline in ePaper is Botswana Wildlife Declines By A Staggering 90% This article is from Mmegi Online and was written by Staff writer Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe Botswana may be famous world wide as a big game country, with the highest number of elephants in Africa, but a report produced by Botswana’s National Vision 2016 Council has... »