Drought and poachers take Botswana’s natural wonder to brink of catastrophe

Guardian: A bull giraffe flanked by a female strides through the Kwedi area of the Okavango delta. The Okavango delta in Botswana has suffered "catastrophic" species loss over the past 15 years, researchers have announced , in the latest sign of a growing crisis for wildlife in Africa. Some wild animal populations in the delta, one of the wonders of the natural world, have shrunk by up to 90% and are facing local extinction, according to the most comprehensive aerial survey yet undertaken there. The......

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