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Current environmental issues in Botswana are overgrazing, desertification and the existence of only limited fresh water resources. Research from scientists has found that the common practice of overstocking cattle to cope with drought losses actually depletes scarce biomass , making ecosystems more vulnerable.
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Botswana faces two major environmental problems, drought and desertification, which are heavily linked. Three-quarters of the country's human and animal populations depend on groundwater due to drought. Groundwater use through deep borehole drilling has somewhat eased the effects of drought. Surface water is scarce in Botswana, and less than 5% ...
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[7] [8] Botswana experiences low rainfall and the rainfall patterns change which negatively affects the agricultural sector. Due to the state of rainfall in Botswana, which is very unreliable, there has been a reduction in hectares ploughed. Heavy rains wash away the topsoil and seeds during the ploughing season and this results in very low yields.
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Environmental issues in the Niger Delta relating to the oil industry, 1976–1996; Arctic Refuge drilling controversy, since 1977; Amoco Cadiz shipwreck and oil spill off the coast of Brittany, France, March 1978; Ixtoc I oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, June 1979; SS Atlantic Empress collision and spill near Trinidad and Tobago, August 1979
The following is a list of ecoregions in Botswana, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions.