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June 13, 2022

Elephant walking in the Okavango River, Botswana

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The world’s greatest oasis?. Okavango River, Botswana

Unlike most river deltas - the wetland area created where rivers drain into oceans or lakes - this one in Botswana empties into the open savanna. The marshland of the Okavango Delta swells threefold once a year, between March and July, when rains from the highlands of Angola flow 750 miles until they flood the arid savannah grassland of north-west Botswana. The water draws a huge array of African wildlife from lions and rhinos to giraffes and zebras – not to mention the planet’s largest land animals, elephants.

Most of the world’s elephants, more than 400,000, live in Africa, and Botswana has the largest population. Most are bush elephants, larger than the African forest elephants who live in the Congo Basin. But both are endangered by habitat loss and poaching, and their populations are about a tenth of what they were at the peak in the last century.

The amount of water that fills the Okavango Delta is estimated to be 2.6 cubic miles, much of which will eventually be consumed, absorbed and evaporated as the delta returns to more closely resembling the surrounding savannah once again. Until the next rains come.

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