The giant bush fires that swept across the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana last month have finally burned out, but the damage is still being assessed. Survival International raised the alarm about the situation on September 8 with a news release indicating that huge fires were destroying a… Continue reading…
A travel company based in South Africa received permission on Friday from the government of Botswana to build a tourist lodge near a G/wi settlement in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). As part of the deal, the company has permission to sink numerous bore holes to provide water for… Continue reading…
A travel company based in South Africa received permission on Friday from the government of Botswana to build a tourist lodge near a G/wi settlement in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). As part of the deal, the company has permission to sink numerous bore holes to provide water for… Continue reading…
Survival International and its supporters protested last week the continuing abuse of the G/wi people for two very different reasons, both of which received attention in the press. On Wednesday, March 12, SI staged a demonstration outside Chatham House in London, where three influential women from Botswana were scheduled to… Continue reading…
While Monday was a holiday in rural Pennsylvania—the opening day of rifle buck season—last weekend brought no joy to the G/wi hunters of the Kalahari. In fact, they want to regain their traditional hunting rights, so they are planning to take the Botswana government into court once again. During the… Continue reading…
While Monday was a holiday in rural Pennsylvania—the opening day of rifle buck season—last weekend brought no joy to the G/wi hunters of the Kalahari. In fact, they want to regain their traditional hunting rights, so they are planning to take the Botswana government into court once again. During the… Continue reading…
The Botswana High Court decision in favor of the G/wi last December 13 was announced on the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Laurens Van Der Post. The famed South African writer had described, and romanticized, the lives of the G/wi, and the other San peoples, nearly 50 years… Continue reading…
Since a healthy antelope can run many times faster than a man, it is hard to imagine a human hunter being able to run down the animal, particularly in the blazing desert sun. Yet hunters in various cultures, among them the G/wi and the !Xo of the Central Kalahari Desert,… Continue reading…
Survival International reported on Monday that the Botswana police have arrested 21 G/wi and G//ana people because they were caught hunting on their traditional lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Last December, in an internationally watched case, the High Court of the country decided that these San people did… Continue reading…
Representatives from indigenous groups around the world converged on New York Monday for the sixth meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which will last until May 24. Over 1000 delegates from indigenous communities and organizations are attending sessions at the UN headquarters; they are focusing on… Continue reading…
