Category: Botswana

Sitting at the geographical heart of southern Africa, Botswana’s Okavango Delta is the closest thing to Eden left on the planet. Gazetted as UNESCO’s thousandth World Heritage Site in 2014…

Source: Botswana’s Okavango. No blues in this Delta.

This World Heritage Day, we celebrate one of the most untouched and ecologically diverse places in Africa – Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Source: Why the Okavango Delta in Botswana is a World Heritage Site – Africa Geographic

“A river rises in mountains and dies in sand and in its dying gives birth to a jewel at the edge of the Kalahari: the Okavango Delta.” So described this African landscape by famed nature photographer Frans Lanting in a 1990 photographic essay for National Geographic magazine.

Source: Jewel in the Desert: Saving the Okavango Delta

If you’re thinking of hitting up this watery, wildlife wonderworld , here’s the best time to visit Okavango Delta and my other top tips.

Source: What is the Best Time to Visit Okavango Delta and Other Top Tips – Big World Small Pockets

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Conservationists are racing to protect the UNESCO world heritage site’s two main source rivers in Angola…

Source: Botswana’s Unique Wilderness Area, Okavango Delta, Faces an Uncertain Future

This middle-income African nation of two million is rightly referred to as the king of safari.

Source: Africa’s great tourism success story

Located in the heart of Botswana, the Okavango Delta is a vast inland river delta that forms each year by seasonal flooding. Rains in the Angola Highlands flow down the Okavango River, but rather than be deposited in a lake or ocean, they simply spread out across the plains, covering an area of about 8500 square miles (22,014 sq. km) for several months of the year. This results in a large ecosystem where a variety of plant life grows, attracting large numbers of animals to the otherwise dry and desolate region.

This amazing place is the largest intact watershed in Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But, it has also come increasingly under threat from a variety of sources, including poaching, ongoing conflicts across the region, industrialization, irrigation, and climate change. But a dedicated group of conservationists is looking to protect the Delta and have undertaken an impressively massive expedition to explore its vast expanse.

Dubbed the Okavango Wilderness Project, the team is supported by National Geographic and have spent years charting the Delta from “source to sand.”

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