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Biodiversity coalition keen for SA to join conservation push

The government says global conservation targets are yet to be agreed on

Report: Lost tribe discovered deep in Amazon

Dramatic images of an isolated Brazilian tribe believed never to have had contact with the outside world were published by officials on Friday to draw attention to threats posed…

Botswana’s Bushmen in lodge controversy

A planned lodge development at the settlement of Molapo in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has become a source of controversy. Tourists who frequent the 40-room lodge’s…

Botswana police ‘tortured Bushmen’

Botswana police and wildlife guards are torturing Bushmen arrested for hunting, Survival International claimed on Wednesday. They made three Bushmen run through the desert in…

Amazon tribe hits back at green ‘colonialism’

It’s one of the most fashionable ideas to save the planet from global warming: buying up tropical rainforest to save it from destruction. But like all big ideas it is…

San, Bushmen or Basarwa: What’s in a name?

A reader wrote to object to the Mail & Guardian‘s usage of the term ”Bushmen” for Southern Africa’s first people. Kobus Faasen quoted at length from a Dutch dictionary published…