Protracted effort by authorities to evict the pastoralists in Loliondo for safari tourism has led to violent confrontation

Indigenous peoples know how to conserve biodiversity far better than any so-called experts in the capitalist Global North

But others argue that the conservation plan will amount to the ‘biggest land grab in history’

More than 100 countries pledged to better protect nature at UN biodiversity talks last week

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

Botswana’s Court of Appeal has struck down an earlier ruling that denied Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral land.

Botswana minister stokes the growing controversy around his government’s treatment of Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

Britain’s Observer has apologised for a ”misleading” article about dramatic images apparently of a ”lost” Brazilian tribe.

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…

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…

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…

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…