Botswana’s Okavango Delta: UNESCO’s 1000th World Heritage Site!

~ No Water No Life
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Chief’s Island, Mombo Camp, Red lechwe at waterhole with reflection
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve, Xigera Camp, sunset.
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve, Xigera Camp.
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Gudigwa Camp, San Bushman, Woman gatherin herbs.
Botswana: Okavanga Delta, aerial of elephant, (loxodonta africanus)
Botswana: Okavango Delta
Botswana: Okavango Delta, Xugana mocorro trip, lily pads in wetlands
Botswana: Okavango Delta, aerial view of channels in wetlands

A place as extraordinary as the Okavango Delta certainly deserves to be designated as a World Heritage Site – and finally it is!  As #1000 on that list, it’s one of NWNL’s favorite natural landscapes and wetlands ecosystem. You can see why in the photos. It’s literally an oasis in an arid country with no access to the sea. The Okavango River swells to three times its size during seasonal flooding, attracting one of Africa’s greatest concentrations of wildlife, including many endangered species. No Water – No Life!

Related reading: https://www.iucn.org/?16018/Iconic-Okavango-Delta-becomes-1000th-World-Heritage-site

http://www.okavangowildernessproject.org/

Published by No Water No Life

No Water No Life® is an LLC project founded in 2006 to raise awareness of the values and vulnerability of our freshwater resources, plus solutions to their sustainable management. NWNL Director and lead photographer Alison M Jones is Sr Fellow of International League of Conservation Photographers and International League of Conservation Writers, a Fellow of The Explorers Club, and member of North American Nature Photography Assoc., Society of Environmental Journalists, Tewksbury Land Trust Board (NJ), and other related organizations. While NWNL hosts bloggers from all over the world, and especially NextGen student bloggers, their opinions do not necessarily represent the views of NWNL.

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