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The Future of Animal Wildlife and Its Habitat in Botswana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

A. Richard Mordi
A. Richard Mordi
Affiliation:
Yale University Institution of Social and Policy Studies, 111 Prospect Street, P.O. Box 16A Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-7382, USA.
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To conserve its wildlife, Botswana has set aside more than 17% of its total land area as game reserves, national parks, and wildlife management areas. Despite this generous allocation to wildlife, the fauna of the country is declining in both absolute numbers and species diversity. Lack of permanent water-sources in some game reserves, obstruction of fauna migration routes by cattle fences, and a poorly-developed tourist industry, are partly responsible for this decline.

In a developing country such as Botswana, tourism should yield sufficient funds for the maintenance of game reserves and national parks. But currently the tourist industry accounts for less than 2% of the gross national product. Unless the industry is encouraged to flourish and expand into dormant reserves such as the Gemsbok National Park and Mabuasehube Game Reserve, animals in those sanctuaries are likely to be driven by drought into South Africa.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Summer 1989 , pp. 147 - 156
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1989

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