ReconAfrica is a Canadian oil and gas company ripping through a protected region, threatening human rights, Indigenous rights under UNDRIP, and pushing wildlife closer to extinction.
The Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and massive wetland home to dozens of globally threatened birds and endangered black rhinos and African wild dogs. It provides crucial habitat for our world’s largest remaining population of wild cheetahs and the largest remaining populations of endangered African elephants. It also provides the livelihood and survival for more than a million people. The Kavango Basin is larger than Belgium and cradles the Okavango Delta’s vulnerable watershed. It is known that any pollution entering the water here would impact the Delta.
ReconAfrica believes they own this area with a 90% stake in the Kavango Basin development and the Namibian government holding 10%. The industrialization from building hundreds of wells, pipelines, and pumping stations that are all linked by access roads would inevitably cause habitat fragmentation. This would devastate Africa's last elephant populations, along with all the life that relies on this region being intact.
Join the global call to stand against this travesty with the petitions below that ask local governments to save the Okavango Delta!
Petitions: Avaaz - Save Africa's Eden
Keep the oil industry out of Africa’s natural treasures! - Rainforest Rescue (rainforest-rescue.org)
Learn More: News & Resources » SOUL (savetheokavango.com)
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