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Vital resource: Water from Angola’s highlands, which is the source of the Okavango Delta, moves hundreds of kilometres downstream, supporting people, farms and nature. Photos: Kostadin Luchansky/National Geographic Wilderness Project/Angola Image Bank

First-of-its-kind study defines boundaries of Angola’s water tower

This is a crucial step towards the protection of the tower, which ensures water security for millions of people in the region

A woman waves a Canadian flag during the Convoy for Canada protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on February 19, 2019. – A convoy of big trucks from Canada’s oil producing regions rolled into the capital Tuesday as hundreds of people including “yellow vest” activists rallied in protest at government curbs on pipeline construction. Parked outside parliament, they honked horns and waved placards reading “Canadians need pipelines and good paying jobs,” as they pressed for new regulations allowing the industry to expand.”This country was built on natural resources,” Ottawa area farmer and former politician Jack MacLaren told a cheering crowd. (LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)

Canada’s flag flutters over crude oil exploration in the Namibia, Botswana Kavango Basin

The oil and gas lies under wild and beautiful land that is critical for providing millions of people with drinking water and livelihoods, and is home to endangered wildlife

View of a small river in the Gomoti Plains area, a community run concession, on the edge of the Gomoti river system southeast of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Science’s burning questions about the Okavango River Basin are answered

Discoveries by the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project underscore the importance of the upper Okavango catchment in Angola, whose rivers and source lakes sustain the…

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2021/06/04: Extinction Rebellion activists seen holding a banner outside the Canadian High Commission in London during the Save Okavango protest.
The activists gathered to protest against oil exploration in Africa’s Okavango region by Canadian oil and gas company Recon Africa. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Canada’s ReconAfrica oil and gas exploration in Namibia and Botswana worries World Heritage Committee

Spills and pollution would harm the Okavango Delta and the Tsodilo Hills world heritage sites

Across the globe at present we are in a world structured by self-devouring growth. (Photo: Philip Mostert)

Africa’s growth-at-all costs model is a recipe for disaster

In Africa, the consequences of the growth-at-all costs model are starting to reveal themselves, and they’re not pretty

Festivalgoers get down and boogie at the Okavango Delta Music Festival. (Photo: Jonathon Rees)

​Delta Skelter: notes from a nascent music festival

The second Okavango Delta Music Festival was a dusty, distant affair writes Derek Davey

Drought takes Okavango to brink of catastrophe

The Okavango delta in Botswana has suffered "catastrophic" species loss over the past 15 years, researchers have announced.

Okavango wildlife threatened

Okavango wildlife threatened

Experts say there is a catastrophic loss of wildlife in the Okavango Delta. But one thing is clear — the delta’s wildlife is in trouble.

Delta fish dispute

Tourism in the Okavango has been great for the economy – but not for local fishermen who make their living on the river. Mandy Rossouw reports.