Botswana safari lodge under attack for failing Bushmen

Wilderness Safaris' Kalahari Plains Camp opened on Bushman land inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in 2009, although the company failed to obtain the prior consent of the nearby Bushman community.

The Bushmen are the indigenous people of southern Africa, and have lived there as nomadic hunter-gatherers for tens of thousands of years - since ice-sheets covered much of the world. The reserve was created in 1961 to protect the traditional territory of the 5,000 Gana, Gwi and Tsila Bushmen and the game they depend on.