Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
On the recommendation of IUCN, the World Heritage Committee inscribed the Okavango Delta as the 1,000th site on the World Heritage List. The inscription recognised a wetland whose flooding regime depends on rainfall and abstraction decisions in Angola and Namibia, upstream of Botswana's jurisdiction — protection of a place whose controlling variable lies outside it.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Okavango Delta · protected_area · Botswana
- IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) · organisation · Switzerland (headquarters); international membership
- Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) · corridor · Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Evidence
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Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1000th World Heritage site
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.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre / IUCN · 2014-06-22 · Partly verified
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1159 and https://iucn.org/content/iconic-okavango-delta-becomes-1000th-world-heritage-site
Recorded on Okavango Delta
- Five states sign the KAZA Transfrontier Conservation Area treaty
- Okavango Delta inscribed as the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site
- Great Elephant Census reports 352,271 savanna elephants and a 30% decline
- Coordinated KAZA aerial survey estimates about 227,900 elephants
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