| 21 July 2010

Photo via Wikipedia It's an old battle, and a cruel one. The Botswana government wants the Bushmen of the Kalahari off of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, one of the driest areas of the world but also one the bushmen have called home for thousands of years. Labeling them essentially poachers and squatters, the government uses water as a tool to remove the indigenous people. At first it was by removing them from land they didn't have legal right to, but after winning rights to their ancestral land, the Botswana government switched tactics. In 2002, officials capped a we... Read the full story on TreeHugger