An expedition to save Africa�s last wilderness

In 2015, researcher Dr Steve Boyes of Okavango Wilderness Project (OWP) led an ambitious National Geographic research expedition travelling by mekoro from the source of Cuito River in the Angolan highlands down through the Okavango Delta to the ‘end of water’ at Lake Xau in the Boteti region.

Last year’s expedition, which took 121 days and covered 2,476 kilometres, established “unrivalled biodiversity data that has helped us prioritise the areas we are surveying for the next few months,” Boyes said.