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Conservation through research & action ~ southern Africa @capeparrotproject @nkashibw @fundacaolisima @intotheokavango @kavangowildernessproject

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Knowledge comes in many shapes and forms. In Lisima, like in other parts of Africa, knowledge is shaped by people’s sense of existence, their cultural identity and the ways they interact with their communities and environment. It comes from experiencing the world around them and is passed orally from one generation to the next. Through the Knowledge programme, @fundacaolisima is bringing these traditions of African orality together with access to formal government education, creating a form of schooling in which formal literacy strengthens, rather than replaces, the oral wisdom that has always sustained the Nganguela peoples of Lisima. In doing so, communities can preserve their identity while gaining another platform to advocate for their futures. The programme is led by coordinator Valdmar Tchipito, with Afonso Lussati and Geremias Tchissola, who navigate community relationships and consultation, and Alberto Sambongue, who coordinates the provincial government’s Youth and Elder (EJA) programme, connecting Knowledge with the public education system. #Lisima #OkavangoEternal #NGOWP ✍🏽 Adapted from an article by @_kerllencosta 📷 Vandilson Almeida @black_dreamrs 28 Oct 2026

Tumeletso Water Setlabosha has played an important role in many of our expeditions through Angola and Botswana. His knowledge of the Okavango and leadership on the water have been invaluable to our work. In Water, a short film by Zambian filmmaker Samson Moyo @moyo.samson, he reflects on his deep connection to the Okavango Delta and the threat climate change poses to his home, culture and way of life. “The Okavango Delta is our mother and father. They look after us and we look after them, because we don’t want them to die.” This film emerged from a storytelling workshop held in Botswana by @greatspineofafrica and @afrisos, with on-the-ground support by @nkashibw for emerging filmmakers from across the continent. #Nkashi #KnowledgePropelsUsForward 26 Oct 2026

Botsang from Eretsha Village has spent many years working in the Okavango Delta as a poler and as head of maintenance at one of the lodges near his home. Through these roles, he has gained valuable experience and developed a strong understanding of the tourism industry. But Botsang believes that knowledge has its limits until you experience things firsthand. This is why he decided to take part in Nkashi Trails. He wants to move beyond his current roles in maintenance and poling at camps, and to develop the skills needed to share the stories of his home with visitors from around the world. The Okavango Delta is where he has spent most of his life. He respects it deeply and knows it as one of the most unique places on Earth. Much of what he knows about the Delta was passed down to him by his elders. Now he is learning how to share that same knowledge and heritage with others. Botsang has since passed his assistant guide exam. His next goal is to pass his final examination and become a fully qualified professional guide. Nkashi Trails is developed and delivered in partnership with the Royal African Foundation, with support from @RoyalAfricanSafaris. #Nkashi #KnowledgePropelsUsForward 📷 Prince Sokologang 20 Oct 2026

As Angola approaches 51 years of independence, and as its biodiverse highlands are gaining international recognition through the Ramsar designation of Lisima lya Mwono and growing scientific literature on the importance of the Angolan Highlands Water Tower, the country stands at a threshold. What kind of future will it build in its own most precious landscapes? The @fundacaolisima Knowledge programme offers one answer. Not by choosing between the alphabet and the elder, but by insisting that both belong in the same room. Not by importing a model, but by helping a community write its own. In Lisima, listening was always the first act of learning. Now, in classrooms that did not exist a few years ago, in villages where every language spoken carries the memory of the forest, a new generation is learning to incorporate new ways of listening. In doing so, they are proving something Africa has known all along: that knowledge, when it is real, does not arrive from elsewhere. It is drawn out carefully, patiently, generation by generation and from the place where it has always lived. #Lisima #OkavangoEternal #NGOWP 🖊️Kerllen Costa @_kerllencosta 📸 @Tucunare_lopez_photographer 20 Oct 2026

There are many barriers that make it difficult for young people in the Okavango Delta to enter the tourism industry, especially for those living in remote communities with limited access to training and learning opportunities. Over the past 12 months, Nkashi Trails has been working to change that through a series of workshops with participants from the eastern villages of the Delta at the Beetsha Nkashi Knowledge Centre. Participant selection was not something we undertook alone. From the very beginning, village leaders played a major role in identifying young people from each community to join the programme. With the support of trainers from respected institutions, we were then able to build on that foundation and provide hands-on training to help prepare them for careers in tourism. The training covered a wide range of topics, including basic guiding principles, first aid, birding, mokoro poling and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Traditional knowledge was one of the topics participants were most passionate about because many of their families still rely on these practices in their daily lives. Combining professional training with the knowledge participants already carry is creating new pathways into the tourism industry for young people from the eastern villages of the Delta. Nkashi Trails is developed and delivered in partnership with the Royal African Foundation, with support from @royalafricansafaris. #Nkashi #KnowledgePropelsUsForward #OkavangoEternal 📷 Prince Sokologang 13 Oct 2026

In the villages of eastern Angola, when an elder speaks, the room fills with listening. For the Nganguela peoples of the Lisima landscape, this oral tradition carries knowledge of the land, medicinal plants, wildlife, culture and community life. A grandmother teaching a granddaughter the medicinal use of a root. A hunter teaching a boy which trees the bees prefer. A traditional leader, like a Soba or a Regedor, resolving a dispute with a proverb the whole village already knows by heart. Orality is Africa’s oldest classroom. And in Lisima, it has kept a landscape and its people’s way of life intact for millennia. Yet for decades, this rich system of learning existed largely apart from formal education. Decades of civil war left the region without teachers, schools or printed books. In 2023, @fundacaolisima launched the Knowledge programme to help bridge this gap, bringing traditional knowledge and formal education together without one replacing the other. Guided by @_kerllencosta’s @ngala_okola philosophy, the programme creates opportunities for people to learn to read and write while keeping the knowledge and identity already held within communities at the heart of learning. The Knowledge programme is supported through Okavango Eternal, a partnership between the @natgeosociety and @debeersgroup. #Lisima #OkavangoEternal #NGOWP 📷 Paulo Perestrelo @pauloperestrelophoto 12 Oct 2026

Angola’s National Biodiversity Plan, PLANABIO 2026–2030 (formerly NBSAP), has been approved, marking an important step forward for conservation in Angola. The Plan will guide public policies and actions for the conservation and sustainable use of Angola’s biodiversity over the next five years. It aligns with Angola’s commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the objectives of Angola’s National Development Plan 2023–2027. For the Angolan Highlands, an important part of PLANABIO is its focus on Water Tower conservation, including actions focused on the restoration and protection of the Cubango, Cuito and Cuando river basins. These water-generating landscapes support ecosystems and communities in Angola and across the wider region. PLANABIO also recognises Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) as a way to expand conservation beyond Angola’s formally protected areas. #Lisima #OkavangoEternal #NGOWP 📷 Kostadin Luchansky @kodilu 06 Oct 2026

For more than a decade, @drsteveboyes and the @WildBirdTrust have worked across the Cubango-Okavango Basin, driven by a vision to understand and protect this connected river system through scientific exploration, research and partnerships. From its source waters in the Angolan Highlands, the river flows through Angola as the Cubango, through Namibia as the Kavango, and onwards into Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The health of each part of this system is closely connected to what happens elsewhere in the Basin. Okavango Eternal has supported and helped expand this work since the partnership between @natgeosociety and @debeersgroup began five years ago. Last week, they marked its renewal for another five years at an event during New York Climate Week, bringing together leaders from across the Basin, including H.E. President Duma Gideon Boko of Botswana and ministers from Angola, Botswana and Namibia. Our work across the Basin is implemented through @fundacaolisima in Angola, the @kavangowildernessproject in Namibia and @nkashibw in Botswana. Each organisation works within its own national and community context, while contributing to the protection of the Basin as one connected system. Over the next five years, the Okavango Eternal partnership will continue to support our work across science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, conservation-linked livelihoods and storytelling. Protecting the Cubango-Okavango Basin depends on collaboration across the countries, landscapes and communities connected by its waters. 📷 IMG 1 Clarissa Villondo/National Geographic, IMG 2 Tucunare Lopez @tucunare_lopez_photographer, IMG 3-5 Prince Sokologang, IMG 6 Thalefang Charles @thalefang.charles, IMG 7 Monthusi Monkhanda, IMG 8 Laone Chombo @laone_chombo, IMG 9 Victoria Marques @ikivik, IMG 10 Vandilson Almeida @black_dreamrs #WildBirdTrust #OkavangoEternal #NGOWP 29 Sep 2026

That’s a wrap on Photo Camp Angola! This Photo Camp focused on how communities connect with nature. Students engaged with #NatGeoExplorers to learn photography and writing skills, as well as build connections within their communities and peers. Speaking on experiencing different cultures through storytelling, Gape Komane shared: “In Botswana, we track the great migrations of elephants and zebras across our ancient sands. But getting to know the sea turtle in Angola teaches us that the ocean has its own ancient wanderers. A sea turtle nesting on a beach in Angola connects our land to the vastness of the deep blue. Just as we guard the paths of our wildlife on land, we must protect the coastal nurseries of these marine travelers. Their survival ensures the natural balance of a world we all share.” Photo Camp was hosted by the Okavango Wilderness Project (@intotheokavango) and Wild Bird Trust (@wildbirdtrust). It was led by #NatGeoExplorers Federico Pardo (@federicopardophoto), Kerllen Costa (@_kerllencosta) Etinosa Yvonne (@etinosa.yvonne) and Fernando Faciole (@fernando.faciole). 📸Trendy Mulela Masule (@mulelaaa), Rossana Graneira Manuel (@rossanagraneira), Melissa Perestrelo, Gape Komane (@gapedkomane), Dário Dos Santos, Veto Kilson Arsénio de Araújo (@veto.araujo_) @fundacaolisima @nkashibw @kavangowildernessproject 28 Sep 2026

During Photo Camp Angola students discover new places and perspectives. Reflecting on the experience Trendy Mulela Masule shared: “Every place we find ourselves in has something unique to offer. I truly loved the contrasting beauty of Angola's people and its landscapes. A unique treasure indeed!” 📸 Anderson Leonel José Figueiredo (@anderson.leonel_) (1,2), Eugénia Rufino (@__miss_moniz) (3), Isaias Elísio Joaquim (@isaiasjoaquim998) (4) and Trendy Mulela Masule (@mulelaaa) (5,6) @fundacaolisima @nkashibw @kavangowildernessproject 27 Sep 2026

Photo Camp Angola continues! The first assignment focused on light. Students discovered how it changes a place, how it shapes bodies and turns them into silhouettes. They practiced moving around, trying to catch the light at the right angle, sometimes they missed but they always tried again. As the sun went down over Cabo Ledo, students began to understand photography through a simple process: where you stand, where you look and what the light reveals. 📸 Danilson Fio, Bontle Moyambo, Elizabeth Mughongora, Gape Komane (@Gapedkomane), Abigail Sekolokwane (@abigailsekolokwane) and Anderson Leonel José Figueiredo (@anderson.leonel_) @fundacaolisima @nkashibw @kavangowildernessproject 24 Sep 2026

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