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The Botswana Wild Bird Trust (BWBT) was founded in 2016 with the
      mission to conserve wild birds and their habitat through
      exploration, research and monitoring, conservation action,
      partnerships, awareness-raising, and support for local citizen led
      organisations.

Botswana

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The Botswana Wild Bird Trust was founded in 2016 with the mission to conserve wild birds and their habitat through exploration, research and monitoring, conservation action, partnerships, awareness-raising, and support for local citizen-led organisations.

Research expeditions undertaken have always included baYei guides and mekoro as a means to explore the narrow and winding waterways of the Delta The footprint we leave on the environments we traverse, as well as what we leave on the world as a whole, governs our decisions on everything we do, including selecting a self-propelled mode of transport.

View a selection of our key projects which gives you a quick idea of where we work and what we do.

Our Work

our work

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The four most important conservation priorities on the African continent today: water security, carbon storage, wildlife corridors and biodiversity conservation

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National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project

The Educator Expeditions, are an educational and developmental exploration-focused project, aimed at supporting primary school teachers with the resources to improve the poor academic results. Schools in the North- Western districts, which are divided to the Ngamiland and Okavango Delta sub-districts, have historically performed below average.

These workshops were launched to impart the use of scientific, academic and indigenous knowledge by the Botswana Wild Bird Trust, National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, and local knowledge of the Delta people. We have facilitated knowledge sharing with the educators to appreciate and understand their students' precious environment as they will one day be the custodians.


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The Educator Expeditions, are an educational and developmental exploration-focused project, aimed at primary school teachers based in the Okavango Delta.

Educator Expeditions

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The Okavango Delta, located in northern Botswana, is the largest freshwater wetland in southern Africa and is home to over 1,000 species of plants, more than 480 species of birds, 130 species of mammals, and numerous species of reptiles and fish.  More specifically, the Okavango Delta is home to 24 species of globally threatened birds and 33 species of water birds. The delta is also an important site for migratory bird species and has been designated both a Ramsar site by the Ramsar Convention and Important Bird Area. 

The Botswana Wild Bird Trust has constructed a permanent scientific research base at Mopiri Camp on the east of the Okavango Delta. It has been used as the launch site for numerous National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project Delta wetland bird surveys, as well as being used to undertake education workshops with teachers from local schools in our community outreach programmes. Mopiri Camp is used as a research base for students to undertake biodiversity and water-based research for projects and in future, Mopiri will be used to launch long-term water, bird and fish population-monitoring programs in the lagoon and surrounding channel.
 

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The Okavango Delta is home to 24 species of globally threatened birds and 33 species of water birds.

Botswana

our work

National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project

Educator Expeditions

Mopiri Research Camp

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