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Planet Hope: Navigating the Great Spine of Africa with Steve Boyes

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The Origins of the Okavanga in the Angolan Highlands

In his career, what's the project or experience that you're most proud of? It was in 2015. We were to find 19 source lakes. These ended up being the sources for the quandere, the ocavango, the zambisie, the Congo, the Kwanza. And that really started at the quito source lake. The peatlands themselves have massive water storage capacity. That represents long term resilience to the impacts of climate change.

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