Name: 【TED】Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places (How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes)
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is Africa's largest remaining intact wetland wilderness.

This shining delta in landlocked Botswana is the jewel of the Kalahari,

more valuable than diamonds through the world's largest diamond producer

as our planet's 1000th UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Now, what you see here are the two major tributaries,

disappearing up north into the little-known Angolan highlands.

This is the largest undeveloped river basin on the planet,

These vast, undeveloped Angolan watersheds were frozen in time

In fact, Africa's largest tank battle since World War II

was fought over a bridge crossing the Okavango's Cuito River.

as it was known by the first Portuguese explorers.

I took a job as head of housekeeping at Vundumtiki Camp

a patchwork mosaic of channels, floodplains, lagoons

and thousands upon thousands of islands to explore.

Home to the largest remaining population of elephants on the planet.

Rhinos are airlifted in C130s to find sanctuary in this wilderness.

ancient baobab trees that stand like cathedrals

We need these last wild places to reconnect with who we really are.

must never forget we are a biological species

forever bound to this particular biological world.

a constant flow of atoms and energy between individuals and species

Our fates are forever connected to the millions of species

we rely on directly and indirectly every day.

it was declared that 50 percent of all wildlife around the world

This is a mass drowning of 15,000 wildebeests

that I witnessed in the Maasai Mara two years ago.

By 2020, global wildlife populations are projected to have fallen

because we left no safe space for millions of species

Now, since 2010, I have poled myself eight times across the Okavango Delta

along a 200-mile, 18-day research transect.

I'm doing this because we need this information

to benchmark this near-pristine wilderness

These are the Wayeyi river bushmen, the people of the Okavango Delta.

They have taught me all I know about the Mother Okavango --

Our shared pilgrimage across the Okavango Delta each year

Today, wilderness is all that remains of that world, now gone.

Ten thousand years ago, we were as we are today:

a modern, dreaming intelligence unlike anything seen before.

Living in the wilderness is what taught us to speak,

to seek technologies like fire and stone, bow and arrow,

and rely on each other and all living things around us.

Over 80 percent of our planet's land surface

is now experiencing measurable human impact:

and illegal wildlife trade are decimating global wildlife populations.

We urgently need to create safe space for these wild animals.

we launched an ambitious project to do just that:

we had pioneered access through active minefields

to the undocumented source lake of the Cuito River --

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