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Barnes, Myra E. "Effects of large herbivores and fire on the regeneration of Acacia erioloba woodlands in Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Journal of Ecology 39, no. 4 (December 2001): 340–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2028.2001.00325.x.

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Omphile, Uyapo J., and Jeff Powell. "Large Ungulate Habitat Preference in Chobe National Park, Botswana." Journal of Range Management 55, no. 4 (July 2002): 341. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4003470.

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Power, R. John, and R. X. Shem Compion. "Lion Predation on Elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Zoology 44, no. 1 (April 2009): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3377/004.044.0104.

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John Power, R., and R. X. Shem Compion. "Lion predation on elephants in the Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Zoology 44, no. 1 (April 2009): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2009.11407437.

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Verissimo, Diogo, Jean-Christophe Cugnière, Suzanne Cugnière, Julien Cugnière, Géraldine Cugnière, and Laure Cugnière. "Record number of Yellow-billed Oxpeckers Buphagus africanus Linnaeus, 1766 (Aves: Passeriformes: Buphagidae) foraging on a single host." Journal of Threatened Taxa 9, no. 1 (January 26, 2017): 9768. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.3055.9.1.9768-9770.

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In June 2016, we observed a group of Yellow-billed Oxpeckers foraging on a single male Giraffe, in the Savuti area of Chobe National Park, Botswana. From photographic evidence we estimate the Oxpecker group numbered between 51 and 60, the highest number on record for a single host.

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Palmer, Anthony R. "Elephants and Savanna Woodland Ecosystems: a Study from Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Journal of Range & Forage Science 33, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2015.1095243.

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Stokke, Sigbjørn, and Johan T. Du Toit. "Sexual segregation in habitat use by elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Journal of Ecology 40, no. 4 (November 5, 2002): 360–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2028.2002.00395.x.

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Hopcraft, J. Grant C. "Elephants and Savanna Woodland Ecosystems: A Study from Chobe National Park, Botswana." Restoration Ecology 23, no. 6 (October 21, 2015): 964–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.12297.

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GUPTA, A. CLARE. "Spatial scaling of protected area influences on human demography and livelihoods in Botswana." Environmental Conservation 42, no. 1 (April 8, 2014): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892914000095.

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SUMMARYA growing body of ‘people and parks’ literature examines the interactions between protected areas (PAs) and people who live around them. This study of Chobe National Park (Botswana), which has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in Africa, highlights a PA's influence beyond its buffer zone and provides a more detailed understanding of the complex dynamics within a PA buffer. Overall net population growth in the areas adjacent to Chobe National Park (hereafter referred to as the ‘buffer’ area) does not preclude outmigration from certain Park buffer areas where declining agricultural opportunities have pushed working-age residents in search of work to urban areas around and beyond the Park. At the same time, skilled workers have moved to some of these rural Park buffer villages to take advantage of new civil service positions. The PA also influences long-time rural dwellers’ social and economic exchanges with urban kin and exacerbates dependence relations, placing economic strain upon urban migrants. In this way, the economic and social effects of PAs are neither uniform across their borders nor limited to those borders. These outcomes have important implications for biodiversity conservation in rural areas as they suggest that population growth may not be an accurate proxy for threats to biodiversity, if new and long-term residents come to rely on less resource-intensive livelihood practices.

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Mosugelo, David K., Stein R. Moe, Susan Ringrose, and Christian Nellemann. "Vegetation changes during a 36-year period in northern Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Journal of Ecology 40, no. 3 (August 6, 2002): 232–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2028.2002.00361.x.

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Gupta, A. Clare. "Elephants, safety nets and agrarian culture: understanding human-wildlife conflict and rural livelihoods around Chobe National Park, Botswana." Journal of Political Ecology 20, no. 1 (December 1, 2013): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21766.

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Resolving conflict between agricultural livelihoods and wildlife conservation requires a sophisticated understanding of both wildlife ecology and human livelihood decision-making. This case study extends the literature on human-wildlife conflict in Africa by using a political ecology framework to understand how and why farmers in areas of high wildlife disturbance make their farming decisions, and how their strategies are affected by a broader socio-political context that includes, but is not restricted to, wildlife conservation policy. Specifically, this article chronicles the livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers in a village on the edge of Chobe National Park in northern Botswana. This is a place where the state has prioritized wildlife conservation but also supports residents' livelihoods. Because of disturbance from wildlife, especially elephants, protected under conservation law, agricultural production in Chobe is becoming increasingly challenging, even as the government increases its agricultural subsidies and support to small farmers. This results in unexpected farming strategies that reflect the interactive effects of conservation policy and other relevant macro-economic policies that structure the livelihood strategies of rural communities living near protected areas. Future human-wildlife conflict studies must take into account these multi-scalar and multi-dimensional dynamics in order to accurately explain the livelihood strategies of people living in wildlife-populated areas, so that appropriate conservation and development policies can be designed.Keywords: Botswana, wildlife conservation, rural livelihoods, human-wildlife conflict, political ecology

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Stokke, Sigbjørn. "Sex differences in feeding-patch choice in a megaherbivore: elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana." Canadian Journal of Zoology 77, no. 11 (December 1, 1999): 1723–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z99-145.

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Differences in diet and patch choices of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) according to sex and herd structure were examined during the dry season in a dystrophic savanna-woodland ecosystem in northern Botswana. The study revealed that female elephants with dependent young fed more selectively than the very large adult males, as indicated by the large number of woody plant species utilised, in order to minimise fibre intake, at both the woody plant species level and the feeding-patch level. Adult females fed on more woody plant species per unit area in patches containing higher numbers of such plants than adult males. Family units also browsed on more woody plant species per unit area and in total than adult males. Finally, family units discriminated between patches in their surroundings and selected patches offering the highest density of palatable species, whereas males were apparently ignorant of the distribution of resources in their environment and browsed in patches containing the same amount and combination of species as surrounding areas. This suggests that body size is a paramount factor mediating dietary differences between the sexes in African elephants at both the feeding-patch and the woody plant species level. These findings are consistent with the sexual dimorphism - body size hypothesis, which states that an increase in body size leads to a relaxation of the requirement for selectivity in feeding.

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Nellis, M. Duane, and Charles E. Bussing. "Spatial variation in elephant impact on the Zambezi teak forest in the Chobe national park, Botswana." Geocarto International 5, no. 2 (June 1990): 55–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049009354259.

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Joubert, Dereck. "Hunting behaviour of lions (Panthera leo) on elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Journal of Ecology 44, no. 2 (June 2006): 279–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00626.x.

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Fullman, Timothy Jon, and Brian Child. "Water distribution at local and landscape scales affects tree utilization by elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana." African Journal of Ecology 51, no. 2 (September 27, 2012): 235–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.12026.

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Naidoo, R., M. J. Chase, P. Beytell, P. Du Preez, K. Landen, G. Stuart-Hill, and R. Taylor. "A newly discovered wildlife migration in Namibia and Botswana is the longest in Africa." Oryx 50, no. 1 (May 27, 2014): 138–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605314000222.

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AbstractMigrations of most animal taxa are declining as a result of anthropogenic pressures and land-use transformation. Here, we document and characterize a previously unknown multi-country migration of Burchell's zebra Equus quagga that is the longest of all recorded large mammal migrations in Africa. Our data from eight adult female zebras collared on the border of Namibia and Botswana show that in December 2012 all individuals crossed the Chobe River and moved due south to Nxai Pan National Park in Botswana, where they spent a mean duration of 10 weeks before returning, less directly, to their dry season floodplain habitat. The same southward movements were also observed in December 2013. Nxai Pan appeared to have similar environmental conditions to several possible alternative wet season destinations that were closer to the dry season habitat on the Chobe River, and water availability, but not habitat or vegetation biomass, was associated with higher-use areas along the migratory pathway. These results suggest a genetic and/or cultural basis for the choice of migration destination, rather than an environmental one. Regardless of the cause, the round-trip, straight-line migration distance of 500 km is greater than that covered by wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus during their well-known seasonal journey in the Serengeti ecosystem. It merits conservation attention, given the decline of large-scale ecological processes such as animal migrations.

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Stokke, Sigbjorn, and Johan T. du Toit. "Sex and size related differences in the dry season feeding patterns of elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana." Ecography 23, no. 1 (February 2000): 70–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0587.2000.230108.x.

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Stokke, Sigbjørn, and Johan T. Toit. "Sex and size related differences in the dry season feeding patterns of elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana." Ecography 23, no. 1 (February 2000): 70–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00262.x.

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Herrero, Hannah, Jane Southworth, and Erin Bunting. "Utilizing Multiple Lines of Evidence to Determine Landscape Degradation within Protected Area Landscapes: A Case Study of Chobe National Park, Botswana from 1982 to 2011." Remote Sensing 8, no. 8 (July 28, 2016): 623. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs8080623.

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Hart, Lynette A. "Elephants and Savanna Woodland Ecosystems: A Study from Chobe National Park, Botswana. Conservation Science and Practice Series, Number 14. Edited by Christina Skarpe, Johan T. du Toit, and Stein R. Moe. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley-Blackwell; published in association with the Zoological Society of London. $119.95. xix + 304 p. + 10 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-470-67176-4. 2014." Quarterly Review of Biology 90, no. 4 (December 2015): 434–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/683727.

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Omphile, U. J., and J. Powell. "Large ungulate habitat preference in Chobe National Park, Botswana." Journal of Range Management 55, no. 4 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/azu_jrm_v55i4_omphile.

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"Elephants and savanna woodland ecosystems: a study from Chobe National Park, Botswana." Choice Reviews Online 52, no. 10 (May 20, 2015): 52–5339. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.188037.

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Gadimang, Phemelo, and Gaseitsiwe S. Masunga. "Ground survey of red lechwe in the Linyanti swamps and Chobe floodplains, northern Botswana." Koedoe 59, no. 2 (May 23, 2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v59i2.1413.

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A ground survey of red lechwe was carried out in the Linyanti swamps and the Chobe floodplains of northern Botswana in the dry and wet seasons of 2012 and 2013, respectively. We documented numbers, sex ratio and age structure of red lechwe within the linear strips of 25 km × 300 m along the Linyanti swamps and the Chobe floodplains. Results indicated a significant difference in the numbers of red lechwe between sites and seasons. About 66 and 755 red lechwe were estimated for Chobe in the dry and wet season, respectively, with 343 and 261 of them estimated for Linyanti in the dry and wet season, respectively. In Chobe, the red lechwe densities varied widely between seasons (9 red lechwe/km2 – 101 red lechwe/km2 ) compared with Linyanti, where the densities did not vary much between seasons (35 red lechwe/km2 – 46 red lechwe/km2 ). The lower densities of red lechwe in Chobe in the dry season when compared with the wet season suggest a possible seasonal shift in the distribution of red lechwe to the nearby Zambezi floodplains in Namibia.Conservation implications: The higher number of red lechwe in the Chobe floodplains in the wet season indicates the potential of the floodplains as a habitat for this species in that season. The dry season shift in the distribution of red lechwe in Chobe presents an opportunity for local communities in Namibia to engage in tourism, whereas the return of the red lechwe to the floodplains in the wet season ensures protection of the animals as well as boosts the tourism potential of the Chobe National Park.

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Adams, Tempe S. F., Isaiah Mwezi, and Neil R. Jordan. "Panic at the disco: solar-powered strobe light barriers reduce field incursion by African elephants Loxodonta africana in Chobe District, Botswana." Oryx, July 3, 2020, 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605319001182.

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Abstract Managing interactions between humans and wild elephants is a complex problem that is increasing as a result of agricultural and urban expansion into and alongside protected areas. Mitigating negative interactions requires the development of new tools to reduce competition and promote coexistence. Many studies have tested various mitigation techniques across elephant ranges in Africa and Asia, with varying levels of success. Recently, strobe lights have been suggested as a potential mitigation strategy in deterring African lions Panthera leo from kraals or bomas, but this technique has to date not been tested to reduce negative human–elephant interactions. Over a 2-year period (November 2016–June 2018), we tested the effectiveness of solar-powered strobe light barriers in deterring African elephants Loxodonta africana, in collaboration with 18 farmers in a community adjacent to the Chobe Forest Reserve and Chobe National Park in northern Botswana. Although elephants were more likely to pass by fields with solar-powered strobe light barriers (which was probably a result of selection bias as we focused on fields that had previously been damaged by elephants), they were less likely to enter these treatment fields than control fields without such barriers. Our findings demonstrate the efficacy of light barriers to reduce negative human–elephant interactions in rural communities.

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