For Philippe Sabourin, writing Prairie Roots and Wings was a deeply personal endeavour. What began as a way to share life experiences with his grandchildren evolved into something larger — a memoir, a ...

a vast inland wetland formed where the Okavango River fans out across the Kalahari Desert. This UNESCO World Heritage site offers its own unparalleled wildlife viewing—from big game to rare ...

Another 300m or so north, the wide river floodplain ... heart of the Kalahari Desert. Much like what the duckbilled platypus once did to the neat classifications of zoology, the Okavango is ...

But the highlight was flying over the Okavango — a vast network of crystalline channels feeding green-blue lagoons that, in late summer, transform the Kalahari Desert into a lush oasis.

Unlike most river deltas that flow into the sea, the Okavango Delta drains into the Kalahari Desert, forming a vast inland delta that sustains an impressive variety of flora and fauna. Visitors to ...

The river is the Okavango, and the remarkable place it creates is the Okavango Delta, the “jewel of the Kalahari Desert’’. Northern Botswana is a region where the landscape is almost ...

The Okavango River, at 1,500kms, is the third largest in southern Africa ... Criterion (vii): Permanent crystal clear waters and dissolved nutrients transform the otherwise dry Kalahari Desert habitat ...

before vanishing into the sands of the Kalahari Desert. Or maybe it’s more like a miracle. Annual floods propel the Okavango River along its 1,600-kilometre course, pushing with it 11.4 trillion ...

The twisting canals, islands and reed-choked marshland of the Okavango Delta ... a two-million-hectare river system that's often referred to as the jewel of the Kalahari Desert.

By contrast, Sitatunga is strictly a boating haven, located on a small lake fed by the large, slow-flowing Okavango River ... us a chance to see what the Kalahari desert region looks like from ...

The latter lies within the Kalahari Desert, nearly 600 km (370 mi ... and could not speak specifically on the Okavango River Basin, de Bruin says that protecting water towers wherever they ...