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Botswana’s Basarwa Minority Evicted from Ancestral Lands:. Is Tourism to blame?

11/05/2013 Martin Botswana, Conservation, Wildlife

The Basarwa have been forced off their ancestral lands. The government say it is for environmental protection, but some believe it has more to do with diamonds and tourism.

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