Botswana Wildlife Guide

The next time you watch a wildlife documentary on African wildlife, bear in mind that the chances are that it was filmed in Botswana. Home to some of Africa's biggest concentrations of animals and to extraordinarily huge chunks of untamed wilderness, Botswana is a non-negotiable destination for the wildlife enthusiast.

Our Botswana Wildlife Guide breaks it down for you: the environment appears uniform from the air but shows subtle changes in habitat on the ground.

The vegetation is more varied than you might think of a country dominated by the Kalahari desert while both Botswana's birdlife and wildlife draw visitors in time and time again.

Happily, Botswana has an excellent conservation record with 17% of its land protected in the form of its magnificent national parks and game reserves - and that's before forest reserves and private concessions are factored in.