Proceedings of the international wetlands workshop held in Maun at the end of January 2008 have been published by the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs. Participants at the meeting discussed experience gained through the Okavango Delta Management Plan project, wetlands governance in the Okavango and in neighbouring basins, environmental flows in the context of wetlands, and collective...
Seasonal dwelling, Okavango Panhandle
Dr Kelebogile Mfundisi, HOORC ecologist, recently published an overview of the Okavango Delta Management Plan process in an article in the journal Wetlands. Note : overview of an integrated management plan for the Okavango Delta Ramsar site, Botswana, describes the three phases of the ODMP work, and concludes that the project was a demonstration of the...
Celebrations for this year's World Wetlands Day for the Okavango Delta Ramsar site are taking place this week in Maun. This year's activities include an international wetlands conference on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, the Environment and Development Dialogue public meeting today, commemoration ceremonies at the Big Tree on the Thamalakane River on Saturday, and, on Saturday...
BIOKAVANGO Project and the Department of Environmental Affairs (Okavango Delta Management Plan) will host the Environment and Development Dialogue to discuss environmental/biodiversity conservation and development issues surrounding the Okavango Delta wetland prior to the commemoration of the World Wetlands Day and to mark the completion of the Okavango Delta Managament Plan.
The meeting, free...
The Okavango Delta Management Plan (ODMP) implementation team at the the Maun office of the Botswana Department of Environmental Affairs has sent out its first newsletter this week. The team reports progress with the international peer review of the plan being carried out by members of the IUCN network of experts, upcoming release of an ODMP video that documents the planning process, ODMP pilot...
HOORC staff gathered today to say goodbye to HOORC researcher and long time Ngamiland resident Hannelore Bendsen. Mrs Bendsen, a land use planner, had worked since 1979 for the Botswana government, then as a consultant and most recently as coordinator of HOORC's input for the Okavango Delta Management Plan.
Mrs Bendsen was awarded the first Moabi Wa Kitso Award for Knowledge Sharing for the...
Feedback to community leaders on the progress of the Okavango Delta Management Plan (ODMP) will be forthcoming from the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) at two upcoming workshops. The events will be held in Shakawe at the Shakawe Sub Land Board Conference Room on 13 August 2007, and again in Maun on 20 August 2007 at Maun Senior Secondary School (Motsamai Mpho Hall), both kicking off...