I was parked up in a hot, dusty truck with wildlife film-maker Russell MacLaughlin, looking back and forth between a huge ...

Contributing writer Chris Colin travels halfway around the world with his family to take a first-of-its-kind safari, and ...

Botswana has always been famous for its high-value, low-volume wildlife tourism strategy which is aimed at minimising negative environmental impacts on the country’s pristine wildlife areas. The ...

On September 23, 2025, it was that time again: The TRAVELBOOK AWARDs were presented in Berlin. One of the categories: the most sustainable safari destinations in the world. Among the nominees was a ...

On a sunny August day, I’m sitting in a boat on the Okavango River in northwestern Botswana. A big bull elephant stands at the edge of the water, using his trunk to pull and slap and feed on river ...

The lions fled across the delta, and our Land Cruiser followed. “They’re not far from here,” whispered our safari guide Dave Luck as he listened, smelled and looked for signs of big cats in the early ...

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Bouncing with the updrafts in the back of a single-engine Cessna, I watch the slim shadow of our aeroplane dance across the marbled expanse of the Okavango Delta, some 500ft below. “If we go down out ...

2002-12-15 04:00:00 PDT Okavango Delta, Botswana-- 'The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse." -- Lord Palmerston, 1784-1865 . "Petit galop!" John Sobey shouts, and we're off.

OKAVANGO DELTA, BOTSWANA — It ain't easy being king. Take a look at a pride of lions, and it becomes obvious that there are more females than males, usually at a ratio of about 2- or 3-to-1.

The threat posed by illegal bushmeat hunting to the Okavango Delta‘s tourism industry in Botswana has been exposed in a recently published report. Botswana is not normally associated with high levels ...