Transient males account for 99 percent of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park s elephant population. But, because the park is vast with very little infrastructure, no one knows for sure where these non-resident animals spend the bulk of their time as they travel through. Elephants for Africa will be traveling through the park, looking for males, and darting them. When the darting team is finished, ten males will be outfitted with satellite trackers as part of important new research by EfA to understand the likely movement patterns of African savannah elephants in Botswana.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its travel advisory for Covid-19 and added Botswana to the crowded “high” risk category.
There are fears that high HIV/AIDS prevalence will reverse Botswana’s impressive covid-19 vaccination rates as the country battles the fifth wave of infections.