Botswana
Botswana has 22 protected areas covering 169,370 km2 of land (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN, 2019c). Within Botswana, land use is divided up into Protected Areas, Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), Pastoral Residential Areas, Farms and Mining Concessions. As Botswana is a large country with a low population, it has been possible to establish expansive protected areas with over 45% of the country under some form of environmental management.
Protected and conserved areas designated as global sites of importance |
|
Global designation |
Number of sites |
UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserves |
0 |
UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Natural or Mixed) |
1 |
Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar sites) |
1 |
Source ((Ramsar, 2019; UNESCO, 2019a, 2019b)
Priority areas for conservation |
|
Designation |
Number of sites |
Alliance for Zero Extinction sites |
0 |
Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas |
12 |
Key Biodiversity Areas |
0 |
(AZE Secretariat, 2019; BirdLife International, 2019c, 2019a)