Barclays responds to plant depletion owing to basketry

Barclay's Bank of Botswana is in partnership with a conservation organisation to replace hundreds of plant species depleted by the success story of basketry.

The plants include mokolwane (barchemia discolour euclea divinorum), which has been declining over the years as commercial basket weaving flourished.

Kalahari Conservation Society (KCS) says the areas between Shakawe and Gumare in the Okavango have experienced a decline in the populations of the vegetable ivory palm, vegetable dye plants (hyphaine petersiana) and many others over the last decades.

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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