Category: Big Game Species

Rhinos in Botswana have been driven to local extinction twice and reintroduced twice, and the population is currently under severe poaching pressure. Khama Rhino Sanctuary near Serowe is the most reliable place for a visitor to see them, while numbers…

Botswana is one of the last strongholds of the African wild dog, with estimates commonly around 1,300 individuals across roughly 130 packs, ranging over more than 315,000 square kilometres. The Moremi and Khwai system, the Linyanti and Kwando concessions hold…

Lions in Botswana take a wider range of large prey than anywhere else in Africa, with prides that hunt buffalo in the Okavango floodwaters, others that learned to kill adult elephants at Savuti, and the black-maned lions of the Kalahari…

Cape buffalo gather in some of Africa's largest herds in Botswana, with mega-herds exceeding 2,000 animals recorded in the Mababe Depression and herds of a thousand or more along the Chobe floodplains and at Duba. They are the Big Five…

Botswana holds one of the world's largest cheetah populations, estimated at around 1,700 animals, which is roughly a quarter to a third of all wild cheetahs remaining. Most of them live outside the protected areas on farmland, where they come…

Botswana holds the largest elephant population in Africa, with estimates commonly around 130,000 animals, roughly a third of the continental total. They concentrate along the Chobe River and the Linyanti waterways during the dry months from May to October, when…

Leopards reach high densities in Botswana's riverine forests, with the Khwai River area, eastern Moremi and the Linyanti waterfront the most reliable places to find them. Tall trees, dense cover and abundant prey combine to make this ideal leopard country.…