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Indigenous people warn of risks to the Okavango Delta, and an ex-bishop of Namibia calls on COP delegates to take action.

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The Okavango (or Kavango) River flows through northern Namibia. Photo: Zairon/Wikimedia Commons Anglican leaders in Canada have joined bishops across the Anglican Communion in calling for a Canadian company to halt oil drilling in the Kavango Basin—an ecologically sensitive protected area in Namibia. Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and National Indigenous Archbishop Mark MacDonald both signed a petition calling for an immediate stop to drilling by Canada-based firm Reconaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica). Thirty-four Anglican bishops and two other arch...

Anglican bishops call for end to exploratory drilling in Namibia's Kavango Basin Thirty-four Anglican bishops and three archbishops from across the world have signed a petition calling for an immediate halt to exploratory drilling in the Kavango Basin, Namibia. The move comes after Canadian company ReconAfrica bought the rights to drill for oil in more than 35,000 square kilometres of the Kavango Basin, a World Heritage-listed and Ramsar Wetland Site that supplies water to the Okavango Delta. The region, which is protected under the protocol of the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Comm...

Anglican bishops wants oil drilling in Namibia stopped By Molaole Montsho Share RUSTENBURG - Anglican bishops said on Monday that Namibians had been blind-sided into a deal for exploratory oil drilling in the ecologically sensitive Kavango Basin. However, the government of Namibia says the fears are unfounded. In a statement, the bishop of Namibia, Luke Pato, said the Synod of Bishops has drawn up a petition calling for an immediate halt to the drilling. "The process has not been an open one, with Namibians waking up to a mining venture that has already been signed and settled. There are many...