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Botswana

  • Partner
Tranche III: 2022 – 2026
  • Implementing agency: Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN)
  • Government partner: Department of Environmental Affairs
  • Ecosystem type(s) assessed: Aquatic and wetlands, forest and woodland, agroecosystem, grassland and shrubland, desert, and hill
  • Most common drivers for the transformation and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the country: Habitat destruction, conversion and disturbance; barriers to wildlife movement; high populations of elephant concentrated in an ecologically sensitive area; increase in poaching; disruption of natural fire regime; unsustainable use of wild plant species; alien invasive species; climate change and changes to hydrology and water quality of inflowing rivers