The Namibian and Botswana governments may be risking their water resources for oil and gas revenue. They have licensed a Canadian firm, ReconAfrica, to prospect for oil in the Cubango Okavango River ...

Contributing writer Chris Colin travels halfway around the world with his family to take a first-of-its-kind safari, and ...

On September 23, 2025, it was that time again: The TRAVELBOOK AWARDs were presented in Berlin. One of the categories: the most sustainable safari destinations in the world. Among the nominees was a ...

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a mazelike series of freshwater lagoons in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, swells to some 6,200 square miles during the wet season of March to September, before shrinking ...

At the heart of Botswana is the Okavango Delta, a fragrant oasis untouched by human beings and pristine with wildlife. It is one of nature’s most fleeting yet magical experiences, taking us into a ...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA >> Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses — 275 — found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks ...

The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy. They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we’re watching a pack of eight ...

The three countries agree on a roadmap to explore the boundary extension of the Okavango Delta World Heritage site to protect the river basin and the unique wetland system. The States Parties of ...

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Bouncing with the updrafts in the back of a single-engine Cessna, I watch the slim shadow of our aeroplane dance across the marbled expanse of the Okavango Delta, some 500ft below. “If we go down out ...

Botswana’s lush, wild Okavango Delta might seem an odd setting for opera buffs. But for Alexander McCall Smith, bestselling author of the “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series, it was the perfect ...

Botswana's state-owned Okavango Diamond Company will start selling diamonds to contracted buyers next month, as it diversifies its sales channels under the government's new deal with De Beers, ...