Okavango becomes UNESCO World Heritage site

The director of the department, Gaogakwe Phorano, said at a press conference in Gaborone yesterday that the department intends to list one site as a UNESCO World Heritage site every two years. The first site to be listed is the world famous Okavango Delta.

"We think we are 80 percent through as far as working on the listing process is concerned," Phorano said. So far, they have gone through an extensive consultative process and have produced a dossier as part of the listing process, he said. "We have consulted with 36 villages, members of Parliament for the region and Ntlo ya Dikgosi.We expect to hold a National Consultative Conference to involve any other stakeholders we may have left out," he said.