SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Botswana, Maun (2025)

To save wildlife and its habitats and to fill people with enthusiasm for the uniqueness of our nature is the goal of SAVE. SAVE stands for a peaceful coexistence of man and nature. It is us humans who destroy and exploit nature and its creatures. Therefore, this process can only be stopped by ourselves. Being in dialogue with companies, governments and consumers, we call on more responsibility and

want to motivate to take action. SAVE is working under the motto "Together we are strong!" As an organization with many existing networks and contacts SAVE seeks to actively share information and build up a trustful cooperation with other organizations. As a long term goal the organization seeks to create a well-developed network. Organizations that successfully supported projects over many years have a lot of experience. By working together and gathering this knowledge we will significantly improve our work in nature conservation.

30/12/2024

It's time to look back: This is what we achieved in 2024! 🥰🐘🦁🌱🎊
We are currently running 53 projects in Botswana with a team of 130 dedicated individuals working around the clock for wildlife conservation and community development. Thanks to your support and the funding from our amazing sponsors! 🙌
The is a conservation organization with a focus on Botswana, where we work together with local communities to protect endangered species and to empower people. We achieve this through environmental education programs for children and various trainings for adults. We believe sustainable conservation can only succeed when the local population is on board, shaping the projects themselves.

22/10/2024

EMPOWERING RURAL COMMUNITIES TO STRENGTHEN CAPACITY: We are delighted to have completed a First Aid Level 1 Training for our Lion Project Rangers and Community Farmers in NG 32/35. Our objective of the training was to provide participants with the knowledge and practical skills necessary for handling basic medical emergencies as well as promoting safety awareness in the workplace by ensuring prompt and effective responses to accidents and injuries. After the training, participants were awarded certificates which will contribute a lot to their professional development. Thank you to TK´s Institution of Occupational Health and Safety Park for the training. 🙏

26/09/2024

Save the date! SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Botswana will be on South African TV on 11 & 18 October. We're proud to be part of the series "Africa From Within" and were very happy to host the crew of Insync Productions at our SAVE Lions camp in the Okavangodelta 🥰🙌 Thank you so much for featuring us and showing how works and how to protect endangered species in the African bush.
You can watch "Africa From Within" on SABC 2 at 7pm.
Here's a little teaser for what's to come 🤩
To learn more about SAVE follow this link: https://save-wildlife.org/

15/08/2024

River Cleanup – for a healthier environment for all!

In Botswana, we’re eagerly waiting for the ‘leleme la noka’ which translates to the tongue of the river. This is the first water coming in from Angola to fill up our local rivers and the Okavangodelta. For the water to remain fresh and clean, Wildlife Conservation Botswana started a river cleanup in Maun. In this concerted action together with the Wild Bird Bird Trust and Boela Project Conservation Trust, various stakeholders came together in the beginning of August and gathered as much as litter as they could take. Around 150 community members were mobilised and together, we were and are working towards a healthier environment for all. Thanks to lodges of botswana, Great Plains Conservation, Arc Idea Architects, Hydrocon Green, Eco-Sustain, Jerusalema Social Club, Letsholathebe Dental Clinic, Botswana Defense Force, Department of Wildlilfe and National Parks, tawana self drive, Botswana Red Cross Society, Department of Environmental Protection, Maun Lodge and Hyprop Botswana who supported and participated in the cleanup!

The aim of is to protect species through environmental education and wildlife protection with a special focus on rural settlements in Botswana. Follow us for more information on different projects and information from the in !

23/06/2024

First playgroup then primary school! Early Childhood Development makes starting school easy for little Lesang

Lesang Kandonda from Samochima village in attended the SAVE in 2013 and is in grade 5 of primary school now. Eustance Kandonda, Lesang's mom told SAVE: “I brought my child to the playgroup in 2013 and he managed to graduate and was given a certificate. Kids attending the playgroup at an early age benefit them a lot. My child went to primary as a confident child able to express himself. He was able to communicate with teachers at school, he was able to write and even read pictures. Now my child is in grade 5 and he is progressing very well. I will recommend parents to take their kids to playgroups because it’s for free and kids are being developed. I have seen a lot of changes in my son’s education."

SAVE has 39 playgroups across the country and has reached 5571 children between 2020 and 2024. The benefit of our Early Childhood Development ( ) programme is also visible in the fact that we are teaching the kids with our own curriculum that focuses on wildlife but also conveys everything young children need to know before starting school: Counting, writing their own names and being creative. During story time children learn new words and learn how to listen and participate in class and they develop their small motor skills and eye hand coordination when colouring. However, the challenges the communities are facing are mostly related to human-wildlife-conflicts as all our playgroups are located in areas where wildlife crosses human settlements regularly. Hence, our aim is to teach children and adults how to live peacefully with elephants, lions and other wildlife without having to kill them. Understanding that environmental awareness is secondary to the existential needs people in poor rural areas face, we help empowering communities to generate income. In the context of our ECD programmes, this means offering parents the possibility to register their children at playgroups free of charge so they can go and earn a living without having to worry about their kids during the day.

The aims to conserve species through environmental education and community empowerment with a special focus in Botswana. For more information, visit our website: https://save-wildlife.org

28/05/2024

A SAVE Success Story: Boitshwarelo Dichaoto’s garden to feed families 🌱🙌

57-year old Boitshwarelo Dichaoto is a pooler. In the in , this means that he navigates a mokoro – the local version of a canoe – through the thousands of big and small channels of the delta by using a huge stick, or pole. He shows tourists around in the beauty of the delta’s nature or simply uses the mokoro as a means of transport for himself. However, this job does not sustain himself and his family enough throughout the year. Hence, he has started an own horticultural garden with the help of .

Strengthining livelihood activities and socio-economic growth among NG32/35 communities near the Okavango Delta through horticultural mentorship – that is what our Okavango Farming project at SAVE Wildlife ConservationFund aims for. We engaged with local communities close to the Okavangodelta in 2021 in order to start a pilot community farm and to teach people about climate smart agriculture. Boitshwarelo Dichaoto from Morutsha village was one of the early adopters of this mentorship programme. The SAVE team helped him construct of 13 plots and planted green peppers, r**e and onions. In the first harvest of April, Boitshwarelo has managed to harvest 11 bundles of r**e from his plot which was sold to community at BWP 10.00. Dichaoto has also made a promise to donate part of his harvest to his immediate neighbours and will continue motivating other members in the community to participate in horticultural farming to feed their families and generate income through selling to private tourism enterprises in the area as well as community members.

is dedicated to the sustainable conservation of species by empowering communities through environmental education with a special focus on rural communities in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

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It's time to look back: This is what we achieved in 2024! 🥰🐘🦁🌱🎊 We are currently running 53 projects in Botswana with a team of 130 dedicated individuals working around the clock for wildlife conservation and community development. Thanks to your support and the funding from our amazing sponsors! 🙌 The #SAVEWildlifeConservationFund is a conservation organization with a focus on Botswana, where we work together with local communities to protect endangered species and to empower people. We achieve this through environmental education programs for children and various trainings for adults. We believe sustainable conservation can only succeed when the local population is on board, shaping the projects themselves. #SAVEWildlife #Botswana #Conservation #CommunityDevelopment #SustainableFarming #EnvironmentalEducation #Hippos #Lions #Okavango #WildlifeProtection #EmpowerCommunities

SAVE is being featured on Africa From Within!

Save the date! SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund Botswana will be on South African TV on 11 & 18 October. We're proud to be part of the #SABC series "Africa From Within" and were very happy to host the crew of Insync Productions at our SAVE Lions camp in the Okavangodelta 🥰🙌 Thank you so much for featuring us and showing how #Education4Conservation works and how to protect endangered species in the African bush. You can watch "Africa From Within" on SABC 2 at 7pm. Here's a little teaser for what's to come 🤩 To learn more about SAVE follow this link: https://save-wildlife.org/ #savewildlifeconservationfund #education4conservation #okavangodelta #botswana #africa #wildlife

We have to talk about this! 20 000 elephants in Africa are being killed by humans every year. We don't want that in Botswana which is why we've been working on empowering communities in the #OkavangoDelta for years. We promote alternatives for poaching by offering business trainings in remote areas such as agricultural farming or traditional basketry. With our #earlychildhooddevelopment programmes, we ensure that children get in touch with nature and learn about the wildlife in their areas from a very young age. We foster a peaceful coexistence between humans and wildlife by empowering communities and protecting species. #SAVEWildlifeConservationFund #Botswana #Africa #SaveElephants #Conservation #NGOWe

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