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• South Africa will sell ivory to Japan, China
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ruled last year that Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe would be able to make a one-off sale of 108 tons of government stocks. Some environmentalists and African countries with ...
• The best places you’ve never heard of
Christian Chumbley, a Backroads regional manager based in Cape Town, spends about six months each year on foot or a bike all over southern Africa and Asia, in countries such as Botswana, Laos, Nepal, India, China, Bhutan, and Indonesia, checking in ...
• Critics say Miss Universe contest outdated
The pageant’s Web site notes that Miss Universe 2000, Mpule Kwelagobe, helped build a 400-bed pediatric AIDS hospital and orphanage in her native Botswana, while Miss Universe 1981 Irene Saez of Venezuela went on to become mayor of a municipality ...
• Awesome animal adventures
Eighteen years ago, an American named Randall Moore brought the elephant-back safari to Botswana, and today Abu’s Camp in the Okavango Delta is famous for its herd of rideable pachyderms. Meanwhile in the Western Hemisphere, a different breed of ...
• U.S. / Europe: Sales
Countries like Botswana demonstrate the positive effect the industry can have on a nation – improving its economy and the health care of its people by providing antiretroviral drugs to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. With the breakup of the De ...