Congratulations / Kealeboga to the “graduate” guides who have completed EWB’s Research Lecture Series! In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, travel and tourism in Botswana has dwindled and one of the strongest disciplines hit were the pillars of the industry, the trained safari Guides. Admirably, many here in Chobe decided to take this time […]
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World Wildlife Day 2020: Sustaining All Life on Earth
World Wildlife Day is celebrated around the World on March 3rd. This year’s theme was ‘Sustaining all life on Earth’ encompassing all wild animal and plant species as key components of the world’s biodiversity. To commemorate, the EWB Education team organized and hosted an event in Chobe West on March 7th, a fun-filled day […]
World Environment Day 2019
On the 5th of June Elephants Without Borders Education program hosted an afternoon event to commemorate World Environment day (WED). This year’s theme was focused on “air pollution” and thus, this event focused on the importance of trees, as the “lungs of our environment.” The day was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Basic […]
National Rally, Connecting Students to Nature
On the 17 of August all roads led to Mmadinare Senior Secondary school for the Association of Environmental Clubs of Botswana (AECB) National Environmental Rally, the theme “Connecting People to Nature: Students are Key to Sustainable Education.” Elephants Without Borders was pleased to participate, as our Education Coordinator, Thato Tsheko represented EWB as a proud sponsor […]
River Basin Ecosystem Management course
Elephants Without Borders is very pleased and excited, having hosted a collaborative endeavor with professors and students from University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney, Australia), Kings College London and Arizona State University (USA) coming under the banner of the Plus Alliance, to teach a 10-day intensive field ecology course called the “River Basin Ecosystem […]
Appreciation and Hope for Elephants
As the festive season is underway, our team at Elephants Without Borders would like to take this opportunity to briefly reflect on 2017 and provide our gratitude for your support throughout the year. This year, as we continue with our elephant and wildlife monitoring research programme, following the herds, monitoring elephants throughout Botswana from Chobe to […]
African Bush Fire & the Elephant
The African Bushfire and the Elephant has received wonderful reviews and recently been selected as Dr. Toy’s “10 Best Socially Responsible Products of 2017” and as “100 Best Children’s Products of 2017!” We are very proud to be working with Sylvia Medina, founder of the Green Kids Club, author to dozens of International children’s books. […]
EWB’s latest Scientific Publications
We are pleased to be able to share two EWB’s co-authored, peer-reviewed scientific papers that have recently been published this last month, please see the abstracts and links here. Our research strives to provide proper information based on data to the decision makers on wildlife conservation efforts across the Continent. To access other scientific publications, […]
Walk for Eco-Literacy Environmental Campaign
“Empowering Future Leaders Today, for a Healthier World Tomorrow!” Last week, we hit the pavement (literally) on a campaign to promote environmental practices across Chobe District, the Walk for Eco-Literacy, was organized by Ducere Foundation and Elephants Without Borders in partnership with Chobe Regional Educational offices, under the Ministry of Basic Education. Objectives of the Walk for Eco-Literacy: […]