Payment scheme in Botswana pays communities to coexist with wildlife

Mongabay
Nov 3, 2026, 7:25 am83 ptsTrending
A new payments scheme rewards two rural communities on the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta for living alongside wildlife. Residents have installed cameras around their villages and earn money from photographs of elephants, lions and other wild animals that might raid vegetable gardens or kill livestock. The…

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