Cheetah Conservation Botswana
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01/07/2026
Today, we join the nation in celebrating the birthday, and honouring the legacy, of Botswana’s inaugural President, Sir Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri Khama, GCB, KBE. The vision he led helped lay the foundation for a nation that has come to be known worldwide for its stability, civil harmony, resilience, and pride in its natural heritage. Happy Seretse Khama Day! na
16/06/2026
Fifty years ago, on the 16th of June, 1976, the youth of Soweto rose with one voice against injustice, demanding the right to be taught in their native languages. Their tenacity gave birth to the observation of the Day of the African Child since 1991, when it was first initiated by the OAU Organisation of African Unity. A day that celebrates the resilience, imagination, and fire of every young person across this continent.
We see that very fire in the eyes of children in the villages of the Ghanzi District. Through bush camps, classroom visits, and community playgroups, we harness this fire to turn curiosity into life-changing knowledge. Working in a water scarce region, we’re particularly invested in this year’s theme: “Ensuring universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene for every child in Africa.”
As part of our bush camp curriculum, students are taught how to filter water to make it safe for drinking. A child who understands the value of clean water is likely to grow into an adult whose views of rivers, pans, lakes, and oceans that wildlife and people share are framed through a conservation mindset. They become the people for whom positive change is a lifelong pursuit; just like the survivors from Soweto.
For every child of Africa, we vow to continue to apply our heads, hearts, hands and minds to making each new day a step closer to realising the impatient dreams of the youth of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Today, we turn the spotlight one of the world’s most elusive wild cats, and a distant cousin to cheetahs: the lynx. Unlike their lithe, spotted cousins, lynx are stockier and sport a short bobbed tail, broad snowshoe-like paws, and distinct tufts on their ears that help sharpen their already exceptional hearing. These features are elements of this ambush hunter’s adaptations for life in dense woodlands and snowy terrain.
Once widespread across Europe, the Eurasian lynx is now a highly endangered species that survives in fragmented populations; with the main threats to their survival being habitat loss to infrastructure expansion, and historical persecution leading to illegal killings. This situation inspired the establishment of International Lynx Day to highlight the power of transboundary cooperation for this wild cat’s prosperity. From 2014 to 2020, the Interreg 3Lynx Project brought together institutions and communities from 5 countries (Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Germany and Italy) to work on protecting lynx populations moving across shared mountain landscapes. The project equipped responsible stakeholders through experience, data and tool sharing, and by implementing a harmonised lynx monitoring at population level.
Lynx survival hinges on consistent, multi-level cooperation, commitment, and action across barriers of culture, language and terrain. From its founding till today, International Lynx Day continues to serve the great cause of reminding us about a rare natural gem that we can’t afford to lose.
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