@gratefuldread I feel privileged to have experienced #Okavango and that NW region of #Botswana when it was relatively untouched in the mid 70’s. A jewel of a place.

Canadian driller #ReconAfrica, facing lawsuits and investigations, has left angry communities and fractured landscapes in the wildlife-rich #Okavango Delta watershed.

In a series of eight articles since October 2020, National Geographic details ReconAfrica’s public ambitions for what the company’s leaders still claim is a huge oil “play,” its ongoing drilling and seismic explorations, and its numerous alleged circumventions of Namibian regulations and law.

A multi-temporal space #radar image of the #Okavango Delta combining three #Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar images, acquired over eight months in 2021: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/03/Earth_from_Space_Okavango_Delta_Botswana - each acquisition has been given a different colour (red for January, green for April and blue for August) to show how the land and water changed between acquisitions.

Die #Kalahari in #Botswana ist während der Trockenzeit ein lebensfeindlicher Ort. Zweimal im Jahr verwandelt sie sich im #Okavango-Flussdelta aber in eine blühende Landschaft. Wie Elefantenkuh Pula ihre Familie durch die Wüste führt: (€) @braun_ruediger https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/tiere-wasser-baby-elefant-durst-trocken-okavango-fluss-wueste-kalahari

Heute wieder ein neuer Beitrag in ReiseFreak's #ReiseMagazin und #ReiseBlog

Afrika: Einmal im Leben Tiere sehen am Okavango

Das riesige Delta in Botswana ist eine Oase inmitten der Kalahari. Und artenreich wie wenige andere Orte auf der Welt.

Hier geht es zum vollständigen Beitrag: Einmal im Leben: Tiere sehen am Okavango (Link zu Reise bei SZ.

https://reisefreak.de/afrika-einmal-im-leben-tiere-sehen-am-okavango/

#ReiseNews #Afrika #Botswana #Kalahari #Okavango #Safari #SZ.de

#tvtipp Unentdecktes Nord #namibia (2/2) - Eine Reise von #Okavango zu den #Viktoria-Fällen Heute 21:00 HR #vicfalls

#tvtipp Unentdecktes Nord #namibia (1/2) - Eine Reise von #Windhoek zum #Okavango nach Botswana Heute 21:00 HR

This @mongabay article titled "Protecting the peatlands and woodlands in Angola’s ‘source of life’" describes threats to the ecosystem which acts as a carbon sink and feeds water to the Okavango Delta:

"The highlands have been isolated for decades by civil war and extensive minefields. Now, local populations are returning to live there, draining the peat bogs and clearing miombo woodlands for agriculture."

There is also illegal logging by companies.

Environmental scientists are calling for extension of restrictions, with an enlarged conservation area, application of the Ramsar Convention, and through "community forest reserves".

However, disappointingly the article does not present the viewpoint of the "returning populations", nor indicate how they would be consulted or involved in determining restrictions and managing a balance between protection of the ecosystem and their own human needs.

#Angola #Peat #Okavango #RAMSAR #COP27 #ClimateChange #Conservation #Environment #Carbon #Agriculture

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/protecting-the-peatlands-and-woodlands-in-angolas-source-of-life/

*The threat to the last African paradise which should worry the entire world.*

"The #Okavango is under threat, and this should worry and mobilize the entire world."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLXryO1KKYM

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ecocide #Namibia #Botswana #Africa #Canada #fossils #fossilFuel

#Okavango Delta

The rigs are being assembled, the hardware unpacked and stealthily implanted in between two #US. administrations, a bit of grand environmental larceny on a scale that one of the world’s most spectacular #wetlands does not deserve. In a time when we know that oil is creating #climate #havoc worldwide, to look for #oil even in proximity to the famed #OkavangoDelta should shame us.

https://africanelephantjournal.com/we-cant-sacrifice-africas-okavango-delta-for-oil/

#Environment #FossilFuels #Africa