ミア・マエストロさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ミア・マエストロInstagram)「Last night @drsteveboyes, @adjanycosta & Water took the stage at National Geographic’s #natgeofest to receive the prestigious @Rolex Explorer of the Year 2019 Award ✨ For the first time in the awards history, it is being given to a project team: The Okavango Wilderness Project 🐘 . Many of you have been following @intotheokavango through the incredible journeys I get to share with my Okavango family and my dear friend @neilgelinas film which I was honored to co-produce. . Here are some of the successes of this rad group of humans: - Since 2015, five research expeditions have traversed the full-length of all major rivers in the water tower, covering over 7,500 kilometers of detailed research transects using dug-out canoes, fat-tire mountain bikes, motorcycles, and by foot. - There are currently 57 top scientists studying this vast, wilderness with undocumented source lakes, unnamed waterfalls, vast previously-unknown peatlands, and what is now recognized as Africa’s largest remaining intact miombo woodland. - More than 70 species new to science have been discovered, as well as almost 100 new species for Angola. Not done yet! No where near in fact! The work continues and are now in the process of establishing a local Angolan citizen-led operating entity, under the Wild Bird Trust banner, to continue research operations in the upper catchment of the Okavango Basin. A place we are now calling the Okavango-Zambezi Water Tower. We have a new 5-year plan with lofty fund-raising goals thanks to a trilateral agreement between Angola's Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Tourism and the National Geographic Society. This Protocol of Cooperation has the full commitment of the Angolan Government, to presidential level, for the initiation of the process of protection for this Water Tower. Thank you for following, caring and sharing this journey towards preserving one of the richest ecosystems in the planet, home to half of the Elephants remaining on Earth and one of the #lastwildplaces 👊🏼🌍」6月14日 6時02分