This video shows wild hippopotamuses in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, moving through open grasslands surrounded by trees and ...

Scientists have mapped a remote Angolan plateau that feeds four major African river systems, uncovering new species and ...

For more than a decade, a team of intrepid researchers have been exploring the river systems of southern Africa, one paddle stroke at a time. Here’s how the work led to the discovery of a lifetime.

The Okavango River – after flowing through Angola, briefly forming a stretch of the Angola-Namibia border and making its way ...

Dozens of unknown species have been discovered in Angola’s remote Lisima plateau during a survey expedition to "Africa’s last ...

I was born in Limpopo, where wild sage scented the air and the distant roar of lions was part of the soundtrack of childhood. The bush isn’t just where I’m from — it’s who I am. It runs through my ...

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 ...

See how elephants actually help shape the flow of the Okavango River, cutting pathways through the reeds and vegetation that the water flow then follows. (water splashes) (elephant rumbles) (water ...

This delta in north-west Botswana comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a ...

About the Episode The Okavango in Southern Africa is a special river born in the highlands of Angola. Unlike most rivers that flow toward the shores of a nearby ocean, it instead runs inland through ...

“The day we die a soft breeze will wipe out our footprints in the sand. When the wind dies down, who will tell the timelessness that once we walked this way in the dawn of time.” —Bushman Song from ...