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The wildlife of Botswana refers to the flora and fauna of this country. Botswana is around 90% covered in savanna, varying from shrub savanna in the southwest in the dry areas to tree savanna consisting of trees and grass in the wetter areas. [ 1] Even under the hot conditions of the Kalahari Desert, many species survive; in fact the country ...
The National Botanical Garden is a 7-hectare (17-acre) park located along the Notwane River 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south-east of the city center of Gaborone . The National Botanical Garden first opened on 2 November 2007, with the purpose of protecting Botswana's heritage. [2] The park is managed under the Natural History Division of the ...
WGSRPD code: BOT ( level 3) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of Botswana. This category contains the native flora of Botswana as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
Droughts occur approximately every seven years. Rainfall, when it occurs, is mostly in the summer, from October through March. [1] The Kalahari Acacia - Baikiaea woodlands are bounded on the north by the Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands, and on the east by the Bushveld. The Kalahari xeric savanna lies to the south and west, and the Angolan mopane ...
Vachellia erioloba, the camel thorn, also known as the giraffe thorn, mokala tree, or Kameeldoring in Afrikaans, still more commonly known as Acacia erioloba, is a tree of southern Africa in the family Fabaceae. [3] Its preferred habitat is the deep dry sandy soils in parts of South Africa, Botswana, the western areas of Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Okavango Delta. / 19.400°S 22.900°E / -19.400; 22.900. The Okavango Delta[ 2] (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m [ 3] in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.
Vachellia xanthophloea is a tree in the family Fabaceae, commonly known in English as the fever tree. [3] This species of Vachellia is native to eastern and southern Africa (Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). It has also become a landscape tree in other warm climates, outside of ...
Bushveld. The Bushveld (from Afrikaans: bosveld, Afrikaans: bos 'bush' and Afrikaans: veld) is a sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa. The ecoregion straddles the Tropic of Capricorn and constitutes the southern part of the Zambezian region. It encompasses most of Limpopo and a small part of North West in South Africa, the Central ...