Botswana Wildlife Declines By A Staggering 90% -Report

Botswana may be famous world wide as a big game country, with the highest number of elephants in Africa, but a report produced by Botswana's National Vision 2016 Council has revealed the population of over 11 wildlife species has been dwindling by as much as 90 percent in a 10 year period between 1994 and 2004.

The inaugural report by Vision 2016 Council has been produced to update the nation how far it has gone in realising the goals of the national vision.

Although the   elephant population doubled between 1994 and 2006, making Botswana's jumbo population the largest in Africa, the Vision 2016 report has warned such an alarming increase has naturally increased the potential for human-elephants conflict.

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