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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's dusk and the wide African sky is an empire of lustrous midnight blue and ash grey clouds. Cumulus castles upon cumulus mountains, altostratus cities beside cirrus rivers. It's soul-stirringly ...

There is not a trophy-hunting dentist in sight. While there's been plenty on this morning game drive in Botswana's Okavango Delta to tempt the trigger-happy, the only shooting has been of the ...

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 ...

Anson Mackay received funding from the UK funded Darwin Initiative to work on aquatic biodiversity in the Okavango Delta. Thomas Davidson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

An organisation calling itself the New 7 Wonder Foundation has mounted a campaign to raise awareness of the incredible variety and beauty of nature around the world.While our own Okavango Delta and ...

Makgowa Ronald Manyanga – Ronald to all – is a talkative man who loves to spin a yarn, but not this morning. He sips his tea, hands cupped around the warm enamel to combat the morning chill, and then ...

Botswana has unveiled a blue diamond whose value could outstrip that of the storied Hope Diamond: the 20.46-carat, close-to-flawless Okavango Blue. The diamond was presented in Gaborone, Botswana by ...