Forest Whitaker and Dijmon Hounsou have joined the Duke of Sussex and the Oscar winner in calling for an end to drilling "destruction" in the Okavango River Basin Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, ...

The heat of the day is intense. It’s dry and concentrated, no humidity to be found in northwestern Botswana. As beads of sweat slip down necks and across overheated scalps, Steve Boyes, a South ...

I was born in Limpopo, where wild sage scented the air and the distant roar of lions was part of the soundtrack of childhood. The bush isn’t just where I’m from — it’s who I am. It runs through my ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Africa’s Okavango Delta will be seen in 8K after NHK greenlit a feature documentary on the African wildlife oasis. “Okavango” will be made by Icon Films, the U.K.-based shingle behind Animal Planet ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The first Andreas Mawano Limbundi and his family knew of oil exploration ...

National Geographic released two films in 2018 which looked at conservation in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Both films took viewers deep into the heart of the Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World ...

OKAVANGO DELTA, Botswana – Portuguese explorers called it "terra do fim do mundo," land at the end of the Earth. And for good reason. Africa’s Okavango River Basin, which covers 125,000 square miles ...

Visitors to the American Museum of Natural History may be attracted by glitter, but scientists see more in the unusual stone. By David Belcher Few of the visitors who marvel at the Okavango Blue ...

Call it luck―or magic―but somehow two of Africa’s driest countries get a reliable source of water supplied to them from a third. A network of rivers and lakes clustered in Angola’s remote highlands ...

In northern Botswana, a vast wetland sprawl is the ecological engine for the entire Okavango basin. Every year, a team of scientists and other experts gives it a health check. The research conducted ...

Public consultations are under way for 450 kilometers (280 miles) of seismic surveys, the next phase of oil exploration in northeastern Namibia. Critics say the consultations offer only limited public ...