Okavango Delta

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1. Story
2. An inland alluvial fan in north-western Botswana where the Okavango River terminates in permanent swamp and seasonally flooded grassland rather than reaching the sea. Inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site in June 2014 on natural criteria. The delta supports elephant, lion, African wild dog and both rhinoceros species, and its flood pulse — arriving months after the Angolan highland rains — governs both wildlife movement and human livelihoods. Water security depends on catchment decisions made in Angola and Namibia, outside Botswana's control.
3. Knowledge
4. Okavango Delta
5. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
6. Connections
7. Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
8. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
9. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
10. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
11. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
12. Okavango Delta
13. African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
14. Hwange National Park
15. Chobe National Park
16. Zambezi River
17. Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
18. Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
19. Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
20. Evidence
21. The World Heritage Committee inscribed the Okavango Delta on 22 June 2014 as the 1,000th World Heritage site, on IUCN's recommendation, recognising a seasonally flooded inland delta supporting threatened large mammals.