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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 ...
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.
This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
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.
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 ...
The kori bustard is the national bird of Botswana. A map of Botswana. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Botswana. The avifauna of Botswana included a total of 615 species, as of May 2023, according to BirdLife Botswana's Checklist of Birds in Botswana, supplemented by Avibase. [1] Of them, three have been introduced by humans. None ...
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 ...
Adansonia digitata, the African baobab, is the most widespread tree species of the genus Adansonia, the baobabs, and is native to the African continent and the southern Arabian Peninsula (Yemen, Oman). These are long-lived pachycauls; radiocarbon dating has shown some individuals to be over 2,000 years old.