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The National Assembly of Botswana approved the National Conservation Strategy (NCS) in December1990. The NCS identified several major environmental issues that needed to be addressed.  

These include:
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bullet Pressure on water resources
        
bullet Degradation of rangeland pasture resources
bullet Depletion of wood resources
bullet Exploitation of veld products
bullet Pollution
bullet Resource pressure due to growth in human population
bullet Depletion and conservation of wildlife resources
bullet The need to improve environmental awareness
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The primary goals in formulating the National Conservation Strategy were to pursue policies and measures which:

bullet Increase the effectiveness with natural resources are used and managed, so that beneficial interactions are optimized and harmful environmental side-effects are minimized.
bullet Integrate the work of the many sectoral ministries and interest groups throughout Botswana, thereby improving the development of natural resources through conservation, vice versa.

The NCS recommended among others, the establishment of the NCS Advisory Board and the NCS Coordination Agency within the then Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing. These came into being in 1991 and 1992 respectively. The Agency services the Board by coordinating the execution of its decisions and liasing with other organizations to ensure that the NCS goals and objectives are achieved.

To perform its duties, the NCS Coordinating Agency has three professional divisions, namely Environmental Education (EE), Environmental Research and Monitoring (ERM), and Programmes and Projects (PP). An additional division is the Administrative Support Services division.

 
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