In Botswana's Okavango Delta — declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 — warming trends over the past two decades are approximately twice the global average.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

a spill could find its way into the headwaters of the Okavango river which feed the world-famous, eponymous inland delta in northwest Botswana. The acreage targeted by the Vietnamese covers an ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a wetland system that is almost intact. One of the unique characteristics of the site is that the ...