Kalahari Desert
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| Area | 930000 |
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| Elevation | 1000 |
| River | Orange River |
| Length | 4,000 km (2,500 mi) |
| Did you know | The name Kalahari is derived from the Tswana word "Kgala", meaning the great thirst, or "Kgalagadi", meaning the waterless place. |
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| ID | 809233 |
About Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
Elephant corridors: The busy trunk routes where locals take care to cross
... This long, thin stretch of land and water opens into the world s largest inland delta, a green jewel in the Kalahari Desert...
COP27: The oil project being called a sin
... The Okavango Delta is an oasis in the heart of the Kalahari Desert...
'I've seen irreversible change but hope too for planet'
... Researchers were gathering more evidence all the time and I witnessed much of their work: in a crevasse in Antarctica where bubbles of air, trapped in the luminous blue ice, held clues about the ancient atmosphere; watching an Oxford professor kneeling in the Kalahari Desert to count grains of sand to calculate how far the dunes might spread with global warming; and riding an armoured vehicle through Siberia to research how the permafrost is melting...
Extinction: meet the new poster animals of the nature
... the Secretary bird, the released to walk in the tall grass in the Kalahari Desert The study, compiled a list of hundreds of mammals, birds and reptiles, which could be used as flagship species...
Kalahari Desert Photos
