Tswana child's clothes, Botswana, by theknightcreative
African Leopard (Panthera pardus ssp. pardus)
Observed by lindawiddop, CC BY-NC
Photo by Bose Bonda for National Geographic Amazing story about natural water sources in Southern Africa with the Okavango Wilderness Project. Caption from the magazine: The Okavango Wilderness Project team pilots several flat-bottom canoes called mokoro along the Cubango River, which wends through the western part of the Angolan highlands. The expedition crew's mokoros are loaded to allow access to what is needed on the water while keeping the boats carefully balanced to avoid capsizing.
Source: National Geographic
African bush elephant Loxodonta africana
Observed by kjhijlkema, CC BY-NC
At a time when conditions are becoming more restrictive for LGBTQ+ people in some parts of Africa, the Republic of Botswana has taken an important step in protecting LGBTQ+ rights by officially removing old colonial-era laws that banned same-sex relationships from its statute books.
This move places Botswana alongside other African countries that have decriminalised same-sex relations, including South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Seychelles, Cape Verde, and Lesotho.