The Botswana government refuses to water the Bushmen inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) settlements or provide them with essential services, despite them winning a landmark High Court case in 2006 against the  eviction from the wildlife-rich  CKGR  as big as France.

Tiffany Foundation  recently released  $ 500, 000 towards the drilling  and rehabilitation of  10 boreholes and pans  in the CKGR  and  a further four boreholes and pans in the nearby Khutse Game Reserve.

President of Tiffany Foundation Fernanda Kellog yesterday  told Mmegi: "I still dream of the wonderful visit I had in Botswana... When I talked to you last, and now, the Tiffany & Co. Foundation is proud of the grants and the organisations that we support", she said from her office in New York, United States of America (US). She said; "This grant is part of the Foundation's larger program to promote wildlife conservation as a source of sustainable economic development in Botswana".The Foundation has also supported other non-profits and project in Botswana, including a grant to the African Wildlife Foundation, which is working with local communities to ensure the wildlife and wild lands will endure and to partner with the University of Pennsylvania in building a facility for HIV/AIDS treatment at the Princess Marina Hospital in
Gaborone, according to Kellogg.

While in Botswana Kellogg was in the CKGR for two days to see for herself the  conservation project funded by her company. She said then:  " I think water is precious. We are giving the  wildlife the most precious thing, water. There is nothing more important we can do than help wildlife get water.. Tiffany is  a jewelery company and we understand  precious and we think water is precious, and what a wonderful gift Tiffany  money can make to provide water to wildlife", she said on her first ever visit to Botswana.

During her visit the Tiffany Foundation boss also went to  Chobe where she witnessed yet another  conservation project the organisation is supporting.

In Chobe, Tiffany Foundation has released $US 250, 000 to help reduce conflicts between communities and wildlife, especially elephants and lions. The project, encourages the farming communities  to enable elephants and lions to roam freely across the Zambezi into  Zambia and back, without any human disturbance. The cooperation by the communities would enable the wildlife to find proper  crossing on the river and safe places to go to and fro.

The  Chobe project  entails putting in place agreement  with local communities in the Chobe and Zambia  sides of the borders, as well as increased staffing of the wildlife department with 20 new scouts, starting on the Botswana side, according to Kellogg.