Fig 1.
Land use and the locations of photographic and hunting camps in northern Botswana in 2005.
Sample areas to compare wildlife biomass and diversity between areas are indicated with a green overlay (High Paying Low Volume photographic tourism and red overlay (without HPLV photographic tourism, used for sport hunting). The four ground survey areas were: 1 = Macatoo, 2 = Xudum, 3 = NG/43, 4 = Nogatsaa.
Fig 2.
The potential for High Paying Low Volume tourism in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana based on wildlife biomass and diversity from 1994 to 1999.
The concessions without high tourism potential areas are demarcated by a black boundary. The wildlife biomass and diversity were calculated from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks dry season aerial surveys in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1999.
Fig 3.
The potential for High Paying Low Volume tourism in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana based on wildlife biomass and diversity from 2000 to 2006.
The concessions without high tourism potential areas are demarcated by a black boundary. The wildlife biomass and diversity were calculated from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks dry season aerial surveys in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006.
Table 1.
Mean, standard deviation, and 95% Confidence Intervals for wildlife biomass (Large Stock Units/ 100 km2) and wildlife diversity (number of species) for sample sites with HPLV* photographic tourism and without HPLV photographic tourism in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana.
Table 2.
Ranking criteria based on the wildlife biomass and diversity to evaluate tourism potential of each grid cell in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana.
Table 3.
The size of areas in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana with low, intermediate and high tourism potential based on aerial survey data for the dry period (1994, 1995, 1996 and 1999 surveys) and the wet period (2001, 2002, 2003, and 2006 surveys).
Table 4.
The number and length of transects conducted at two HPLV sites and two non-HPLV sites in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana, showing the mode of transport used to collect data.
Fig 4.
The number of species regarded as common, regular, uncommon and rare at four study sites.
Expect to see common species in one game drive, regular species in two to four game drives, uncommon species in five to ten game drives and rare species in more than ten game drives.
Table 5.
The classification of wildlife species as common, regular, uncommon and rare at four study sites in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana and the mean sighting frequency (kilometres/ observation) for each species.