Uploaded September 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Lake Ngami in Botswana is drying up and hundreds cows and horses and numerous hippo are dying stranded in the mud.

Relying on an outflow from the Okavango Delta, the recent drought in Southern Africa has meant that no water has flown in for several years and it is now in its final weeks of life.

Fishermen are taking advantage of the drying up lake by catching the last of the remaining fish.

The tragedy is mind numbing in its extent of animal suffering.

Its hard to to say that this is in any way related to climate change as this lake has dried out in the past. Africa is notorious for its droughts but perhaps it is a forewarning of what is to come.

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