The Kalahari desert stretches roughly 360,000 square miles across Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The landscape is home to various animals including meerkats, the Kalahari lion, Cape cobras ...

Rising from the Kalahari Desert’s vast, flat expanse ... down from the sky into Tsodilo―people first, followed by animals―to help them survive. It was a time when humans and wildlife ...

Lee and Carol Grim, of International Falls, were offered the trip to South Africa when a study abroad program was offered by William Bowerman, who studied eagles in Voyageurs National Park.

But what makes the Okavango truly extraordinary is its location – slap bang in the middle of the ancient and arid Kalahari Desert ... a rich array of flora and fauna, attracting huge populations ...