This is a crucial step towards the protection of the tower, which ensures water security for millions of people in the region
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
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 Okavango Delta
Spills and pollution would harm the Okavango Delta and the Tsodilo Hills world heritage sites
Opponents also label Canadian oil and gas company’s announcement of working petroleum system in Namibia as premature
Thirty-four bishops and three archbishops decry exploratory drilling as a ‘sin’ against the Earth
Civil society groups have called on Namibia’s agriculture, water and forestry minister to immediately stop a Canadian company from prospecting
San leaders decry Canadian “climate-wrecking” oil and gas project in Namibia, Botswana
In Africa, the consequences of the growth-at-all costs model are starting to reveal themselves, and they’re not pretty
The second Okavango Delta Music Festival was a dusty, distant affair writes Derek Davey
The Okavango delta in Botswana has suffered "catastrophic" species loss over the past 15 years, researchers have announced.
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.
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/ 20 November 2009
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.