Sunrise on the Okavango Delta Photo: Heide Brandes Botswana still boasts impressive amounts of wild areas. But this vast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luca and Melua explore Botswana’s Okavango Delta by boat, uncovering its hidden wildlife. Later, they head to the Seychelles, where they discover creatures along the sunlit beaches of La Digue Island.

These networks create a delta called the Okavango. Deltas usually form where a river meets the sea, however the Okavango sits in the north of Botswana, transforming 10,000 square kilometres of ...

Float over the Okavango, Heli-flip over Vic Falls, or sky-dive above the dunes of the Namib Desert for an electrifying fresh ...