Gliding silently through the winding channels of the Okavango Delta, I felt a bit nervous. Our mokoro canoe, a type of dugout ...

of water to the Okavango Delta each year. At the southern Angolan border, the Cuito and Cubango merge to form the bigger Okavango River, which flows across a narrow band of Namibia called the ...

National Geographic’s Okavango Wilderness Project is an effort to survey, and ultimately help protect, the delta’s headwaters. It began in 2015 with an expedition on Angola’s Cuito River ...

Rains that fall in Angola during the previous wet season, from November through May, propel the Okavango River along its 1,000-mile downhill course in June, pushing with it 2.5 trillion gallons of ...

The death of the delta would mark the end of an unlikely chain of events. Millions of years ago, the Okavango river stretched for thousands of miles from tropical rainforests near the equator to ...

Image above: The Okavango's annual flood edges closer to the Xudum pride's territory. Botswana’s Okavango Delta is one of the most remarkable and unique ecosystems on Earth. Image above: The ...

MAUN: The Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the world’s most iconic ecosystems, is under threat.

Minister of Environment and Tourism, Wynter Mmolotsi, has pledged government support for conservation science and regional collaboration to protect the Okavango Delta.

A look at some of earth's greatest spectacles. How a yearly flood creates the lush wetland of the Okavango Delta in the middle of the vast Kalahari Desert. Show more Set in three of the most ...

The air hung heavy around us in a private wildlife concession in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, beneath a cloudless sky that formed a brilliant blue dome. No birds sang, no insects buzzed — it was ...

Jumping between two tinnies in the middle of Africa’s Okavango Delta is not for the faint of heart, but it has to be ...