Indigenous people warn of risks to the Okavango Delta, and an ex-bishop of Namibia calls on COP delegates to take action.
In Botswana those concerns are echoed by descendants of Southern Africa's first inhabitants: the San.
"We don't want this project to happen," says Diphetogo Anita Lekgowa, a San activist from Botswana who is attending COP27 in Egypt as a campaigner for indigenous people's rights. The government has also underlined that no drilling is currently planned in Botswana - the exploration will be carried out by non-invasive means.
Growing up in the village of Khwai on the edge of the delta, the reverence her elders had for the river was woven into the fabric of their lives, she says.
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