How intense and incredible it was to see this animal, among others, not behind a cage in the zoo, but roaming free. Our guide, Isaac, whispered to us “he’s going to come right next to us.

It is, however, not without its risks. The Okavango teems with threatening animals. While safari vehicles are safe – all game, even lions, Moleseng says, see them as some sort of benign animal ...

I visited three Desert & Delta lodges for one epic adventure. Here's how to craft your dream Botswana itinerary. Nina Ruggiero / Travel + Leisure It was day four of our trip to Botswana with ...

A New Breed of Safaris in Botswana Aims Higher Than Just Animals. ... the caravan of quad bikes ground to an abrupt halt along the cracked and creviced salt pans of Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Basin.

How these animals will live in the wild is a question that will take a lifetime or more to answer, and Colossal is turning to other animals for help – including a group of elephants in Botswana.

(For more, see the October T&C cover story—"Africa's Ark.") The cost—details are in "How to Book It" —includes a tax-deductible donation to the rescue effort. Why ...

Coexisting with elephants in Botswana can be challenging. No other country is home to more elephants than Botswana. Oaitse has founded an NGO to teach people how to live with the enormous creatures.

The dying animals in Botswana lived in a roughly thousand-square-mile tract in a remote area northeast of the Okavango Delta, where an estimated 18,000 elephants, 16,000 people, and 18,000 cattle ...

Elephants could soon become dog food if officials in Botswana approve recommendations to halt a four-year ban on hunting the majestic animals and introduce cutting up their meat for pet food.

Botswana is home to some 130,000 elephants, more than any other country in the world. For years, trophy hunters from the U.S. and Europe came to Botswana to hunt large male elephants, paying tens ...

Elephant Havens co-founder Debra Stevens said, “nine times out of 10,” elephants in Botswana are orphaned due to human-wildlife conflict. Many of the foundation’s orphans were made so ...