Botswana

Africa · Southern Africa

2 projects · 2 organizations

Ecoexist Trust

Food & Farming

Ecoexist Trust helps Okavango farmers protect their harvests and livelihoods so both people and Botswana's elephants can thrive side by side.

8,000km²Area of shared elephant-human landscape covered

16kpeopleLocal residents sharing the landscape with a roughly equal elephant population

Cheetah Conservation Botswana

Wildlife

Trains local Tswana livestock guarding dogs so Kalahari farmers and Botswana's 1,700 wild cheetahs can share the same unfenced land.

1,700cheetahsWild cheetahs in Botswana (~25% of global population)

85percentReduction in livestock losses for farmers using guarding dogs