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How is climate change impacting the MAKGADIKGADI PANS?

Conservation-focused safari operator Natural Selection is joining forces with Delphine Dubray, a PhD researcher from the University of Botswana, to fund her three-year project on the impact of declining surface water caused by climate change in the expansive Makgadikgadi Pans.

This arid tapestry of salt pans in Botswana was once a vast lake nourishing the Kalahari Desert and is home to the

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