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Travel to south west Africa along the Okavango River

  • Fred Vigeant
Explore the landscape and wildlife of the Upper Okavango River. A lioness severely injured by a buffalo is left for dead by her pride. Now handicapped, she has to survive in the swamp alone, hunting to feed her little cubs.

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Explore the landscape and wildlife of the Upper Okavango River. A lioness severely injured by a buffalo is left for dead by her pride. Now handicapped, she has to survive in the swamp alone, hunting to feed her little cubs.

Experience the wildlife of the Okavango Delta, an unlikely oasis and lush paradise in Southern Africa that connects and supports a wide array of creatures. Lions chase elephants, who chase hippos, who chase crocodiles. F. Murray Abraham narrates.

Unlike most rivers that flow toward the shores of a nearby ocean, Okavango instead runs inland through Botswana, creating a huge river delta before finally disappearing into the Kalahari Desert.

In part one of the three-part series on Nature, we’ll explore the landscape and wildlife of the Upper Okavango River.  A lioness severely injured by a buffalo is left for dead by her pride. Now handicapped, she has to survive in the swamp alone, hunting to feed her little cubs.

Watch Nature on WITF Wednesday October 23 at 8:00pm or stream through the PBS app.

Parts two and three broadcast the next two Wednesdays on WITF:

  • Part two – See the landscape and wildlife of the “Middle World,” the delta of the Okavango River.
  • Part three – Discover the landscape and wildlife of the Lower Okavango River, where the land is baked dry by the scorching sun.

 

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