The Okavango River Basin provides a vital source of water to about one million people and abundant and diverse wildlife populations. However, this once untouched oasis is now at risk as human activity encroaches. Come face to face with lions, hippos, wild dogs, and more in the final episode of The Okavango Experience, as the team returns from this incredible wilderness. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe
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This is a place filled with magic.
Everything has to have a reason.
The movement of the grass, the call of an animal,
the call of a bird, everything.
We're connected to all of it,
and that is
the most
alive we
can ever be.
This is a sanctuary for these incredible animals,
just to be the way they've always been.
Giraffes are
disappearing
everywhere
they exist,
but not here, in
the Okavango Delta.
Lechwe are perfectly adapted
to the open floodplains of the Delta,
so they thrive.
Baboons are more like us than we would like to admit.
They live connected to each other and the world around them.
Wild dogs
are endangered,
threatened
with extinction.
With so few left, they are hardly ever seen.
The hippo,
the kubu,
that is the
custodian
of these
waterways.
It is the engineer.
The hippo creates this environment and without the hippo,
we would not have the Okavango Delta.
But while we're moving through this environment,
we need to be aware of this animal.
Thank you, thank you.
If we lose these places, then I think we're all lost
to our connection to this planet that looks after us.
That's why I say we want to look after this one for our children
and the children of our children.
We want this area to be better.
It's a downward slope into development
and people and tourism and you see boats.
It is a basic human right
to be able to experience
a wilderness like this.
After 18 days in the wild, we are sad, not happy to be leaving.
Returning to the developed world that threatens these last wild places.
It's quiet.
I'm expecting shrieks and squeals from the boat, and it's dead quiet.
So it's almost like a come down, you know, from an amazing place.
You just start realising that the whole world's not like this.
Every single one of us will go to bed that night going,
oh, I wish I was back out there.
We all need to do everything we can
to preserve our last remaining wildernesses
before they
are lost forever.
Wilderness, places like
this around the world,
are formative to who
we are as human beings
and without them we lose something fundamental to who we are.
