Mascom, BMC answer the call to ‘Save the Vulture’
Tuesday, July 08, 2025 | 650 Views |
Mascom 3-For-3 team. Goo-Moremi Trust team and Goo-Moremi Gorge team crushing the bones for Vultures.PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Today a few thousand remain. In a continued effort to foster vulture conservation, Mascom through its staff-led Corporate Social Responsibility programme, 3-For-3 joined hands with the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) last weekend to support Goo-Moremi Gorge in its efforts to reverse the declining vulture populations. This year’s initiative was held under the theme 'Pushing for Automation to Drive the Conservation of Vultures'.
Whilst there is no recent data on current vulture numbers, the last known survey in 2018 recorded only 274 birds in the area.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...