Conservationists warn against proposed tourism development in Botswana’s Chobe

By Solomon Tjinyeka for INK 24

Botswana’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resource Conservation and Tourism has defied a recommendation of the Chobe National Park management plan and invited local companies with tourism licenses to bid to build eight new lodges in the park’s riverfront area.

The management plan conducted last year by consultants recommended that ‘no new lodges’ should…