You’ve heard of the famous Okavango Delta. But have you heard of Namibia’s Kwando Delta? 🌿🐘 Yep - Namibia has its own version! Smaller, greener than anything you picture when you picture Namibia, and few tourists have even heard of it. Zoom in on a map 🗺️ and find the skinny strip poking out of Namibia’s northeast corner, wedged between Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. That’s where we found ourselves after a 3-day drive across the country. Elephants have moved through this corridor for centuries (before the countries’ borders even existed). 🐘 Then the poaching started. Rangers were under-resourced and floods blocked access to the islands… and the wildlife population nearly evaporated. Even the birds learned to stay away. 💔 But this story has a happy ending: Conservationists have spent the last few years fiercely protecting the land and restoring it as a safe passageway… and it’s working. 🙌🏼 Poaching has dropped dramatically. We saw families of elephant wading thr...