Why is poaching prevalent in Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta?

Friday, January 31, 2020

A dead denormed rhino. BDF accused of 'incompetence'

There has been a lot of reporting about poaching in some of Botswana’s national parks and government has as always played down there porting saying there was no poaching.

First as a concerned citizen, I call upon President Mokgweetsi Masisi to stop forthwith being dishonest with Batswana.

I listened carefully to his press conference on arrival at the VVIP lounge when he disembarked from the Qatar Airways flight on January 26, 2020, insinuating that the upsurge of rhino poaching was some kind of conspiracy.

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Why is poaching prevalent in Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta?

There has been a lot of reporting about poaching in some of Botswana’s national parks and government has as always played down there porting saying there was no poaching.

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Kwa Nokeng Oil sponsors young biker with P120,000

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