Botswana

Save The Okavango

Save The Okavango

The Okavango River Basin is in danger. Permits have been granted to a Canadian fossil fuel company, ReconAfrica, which plans to build new oil and gas fields in the Okavango wilderness region of Namibia and Botswana. The license permits drilling and potentially fracking over a 13,200-square-mile area that includes land adjacent to protected areas in Namibia’s Kavango regions and the Okavango Delta (the world's largest inland delta) in Botswana...