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The Kavango Basin is a remote rural region that has remained largely untouched . . . until now.
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ReconAfrica, a Canadian company, has recently begun prospecting for oil and gas here. Their test wells are located on the rivers that feed into the world-famous Okavango Delta.
This unique area of biodiversity relies heavily on the river water, but also on migrating savanna elephants. Now, all this is under threat - particularly if fracking is involved. We investigate the impact of oil drilling in the region, and look at recent whistleblower allegations. Can the Okavango region still be saved?
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:13 - Oil exploration activities in the Kavango Basin
03:17 - The Okavango Delta: wildlife & ecosystem
05:40 - Why is drilling for oil in the region a problem?
06:27 - Fracking: theory, history and threats
08:51 - Is ReconAfrica fracking for oil?
10:41 - Whistelblower report: Is it all a scam?
12:12 - Disclaimer!
12:32 - Outro
🔗Sources:
(1) CISION PR Newswire: www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...
(2) CISION PR Newswire: www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...
(3) ReconAfrica - Voices of Kavango - Chapter 2: vimeo.com/user116316027
(4) Natural Gas Intelligence - Information about the Barnett Shale: www.naturalgasintel.com/infor...
(5) VPro Documentary - Shale cowboys: fracking under Trump | VPRO Documentary | 2017: • Shale cowboys: frackin...
(6) Google Earth - Barnett Shale, Texas: • Barnett Shale, Texas
(7) Mongabay: news.mongabay.com/2020/12/ala...
(8) ReconAfrica - Investor Presentation Sept. 2019: www.documentcloud.org/documen...
(9) Namibian Broadcasting Corporation - Early oil and gas discovery onshore Namibia rules out fracking: • Early oil and gas disc...
(10) Lewis & Clark Law School - National Geographic Whistleblower Story Quotes Professor: law.lclark.edu/live/news/4613...
(11) ReconAfrica Official Website - Directors and Officers: reconafrica.com/about/directo...
(12) Oil and Gas Global Network (OGGN) - OGGN & API HOUSTON CHAPTER PRESENTS: The Opening of the Deep Kavango Basin: • "OGGN & API HOUSTON CH...
(13) Namibian Broadcasting Corporation - Recon Africa says oil and gas exploration activities in Kavango basin are above board
(14) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - Renaissance Oil Corp. Annual Report: www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...
(15) National Geographic - Oil exploration company in Okavango wilderness misled investors, complaint to SEC says: www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
(16) SMITHWEEKLY RESEARCH - Discussion with Scot Evans | Recon Energy Africa: • Discussion with Scot E...
(17) CISION PR Newswire - Big Oil Missed This, Now It Could Be Worth Billions: www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...
(18)OilPrice.com - The Best 2 Stocks To Hold As Oil Prices Explode oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil...
(20) ReconAfrica - Kavango Basin Research Report May 2020: reconafrica.com/wp-content/up...
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Producer & Editor: Philip-Jaime Alcazar
Voice-Over: Julian Nightingall
Motion Graphics: Elias Freiberger
Assistant Producer: Katrin Blass
Sound Design: Hubert Weninger
Production Assistant: Emily Shreyvogel
Footage & Media Quotes:
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Have you seen our video on the Nile conflict and why the Egyptians fear that their lifeline could disappear? czcams.com/video/WKCW5Gg6Ffo/video.html
Anyone else came here from Caspian Report? I honestly thought it was a Caspian report video.
It looks like a top notch channel as well, thanks Shirvan for introducing this channel to us
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Yup, but I'm very glad it happened...
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Caspian report sent me here
welcome!
Me too!!!
Same
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my parents live to the south of the Kalahari basin (central south africa - can be very arid at times). I once heard a story where some researchers put some dyes into the the Botswana wetlands and traces of these dyes were found in groundwater at the eye of Kuruman (largest natural spring in southern hemisphere) which is about 1000km away. Theres an extensive network of underground tunnels and caves that span this distance. The fracking video has a neat little lasagna where the ore is neatly below the water table but I cannot imagine that’s it’s that tidy/simple in reality
That’s a shame. Honestly, it looks like they’re using that area in hopes no one will speak up. I’m glad ppl are speaking up. They ruin the water here in the us with it too
I can barely watch this til the end, it makes me so sad and tired to see how reckless people can be
Lol u support them
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The video is mostly fiction so relax.
No one is being reckless.
Get angry!
It’s Canadian election time, probably to late for this to be a talking point though..
First I've heard of this. I was sort of stunned when I heard "Canada". Fraking has devastated areas of Northern Alberta, a large portion of people here think it is "harmless", when in fact it is the dirtiest oil in the world in terms of environmental damage.
I've seen them with my own eyes, I worked in the industry for 5 years, my father and brother worked on the rigs. Grasslands churned into tar sands. It's not in the least bit "clean".
The image of Canada as a place inhabited by kind and nice people is a weapon used to project soft power abroad. A Canadian gold mining company called Buffalo Gold destroyed an entire ecosystem on the Italian island of Sardinia and the Italian government had to intervene to clean it up. All this without producing wealth for the local populations. This has happened in Europe; imagine now what is happening in Africa. We are facing a global crisis caused by CO2 and they are still searching for oil. Pecunia non olet as the ancient Romans used to say.
@@marchesiamatteini I'm Canadian (well a resident of 21 years) and I'm proud to criticize my nation. We aren't exposed to this in our media. We are inundated with news from across the border. But we aren't innocent.
@@RDRF_SB13 you have no clue have you ever worked or even been there? The re planted areas are healthier than they every were or would be since the bitumen is seperated
@@Theguywhoismeok yes I worked in the industry for ~5 years. I worked in design of electrical upgrades for facilities based in mainly Northern Alberta. My father and brother worked at various sites as electricians.
The pollution of ground water, those massive toxic waste ponds, that methane smell, that oily dirt that balls up under your boots. It's not clean.
I'm not normally on the environmentalist bandwagon, but the disruption of an ecosystem this intricate and unique would truly be a loss for all of humanity. I also hope they don't try fracking for the sake of the natives. Having to Watch your only water source diasapear a little more each day because somebody else is using it for their "project" would be terrible.
if youre not you will be
CaspianReport got me here. Great report. Feel sad by acts of these greedy people who wont let this world for next gens
18 months ago I laughed when one of the employees on vacation admitted that they will be drilling for oil in the near future. Yup. Goodbye peaceful Namibia
Or namibia has Kuwait sums of barrels of oil and can transform lives of the people living in the country.
AND THERE IS NO FRACKING!! THE OIL IS SO GOOD THERE THAT THEY DONT NEED TO!!!
@@gladlawson61 If Namibia has corruption, it might turn into another Venezuela, or Nigeria at best where all the money goes to corrupt government officials instead of the people.
@@gladlawson61 leave it in the ground
It’s not just ReconAfrica that we should gear our rage towards, but also to the Namibian government that gave these licenses to the company. We need names of those government officials. How much were they bribed?
Exactly the company wouldn't be able to do anything if Namibia had a competent goverment.
Lol you're both wrong.
@@gladlawson61 how so? It's not like a Canadian company can just show up in any country and do another wishes it need the permission of said government first. It's really not that hard of a concept.
What makes you think the Namibian Gov officials were bribed?
Is it hard for you to imagine that oil revenues of say $100 Billion can transform the livelihoods of 2.5m Namibians and the Gov would welcome such an investment?
Sure there's legitimate environmental concerns but this is not unusual for most projects of such a magnitude.
Bottom line is the vast majority of Namibian people who're experiencing economic hardship welcome this investment and there's nothing you can do about it. Even if you were to put pressure on ReconAfrica and block their funds in Canada, we'll simply turn to the Chinese and they'll gladly takeover the project - which will spell bad news for all of you tree-huggers out there since the Chinese care less about the environment. At least the Canadians are more concerned about their reputation and will try their best to protect the environment.
So you're a citizen of that country? Stop oppressing other countries just so you can keep nice scenery.
I just stumbled up on a gem. This channel is awesome
Wow thank you so much Olive for your very kind words! Welcome to Terra Mater - we would be very honoured if you. would join our community and consider subscribing 😊😉
Who's here from shirvan ?
here
Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu (India) have the same situation and methane gas extraction happens in areas of the world famous cauvery delta. The delta region have one of the world's best rice producing ecosystem.
Fracking basics: Sometimes oil or gas is contained within rock that does not transmit it well. So it contains oil, but the oil 'drains' so slowly that it isn't worth drilling for, were it not for fracking.
Fracking uses hydraulic pressure to fracture the rock, allowing the oil/gas to escape, BUT also has sand or other grit (proppant) that wedges into the cracks to keep them open.
Franking, in and of itself, isn't that harmful except that the weakening of the rock can initiate earthquakes from already stressed geological formation. (the potential for an earthquake must already exist for fracking to trigger it). It can also cause petroleum to go where it is unintended.
The real issues are 1: the support infrastructure, which is hardly unique to fracking, and 2: the chemicals used in the fracking solution.
"Oh hey here's another environmental- ooh that's my country's flag... Shit. : /"
PS - Shut down the well.
Yeah. We ain’t the international good guys we liked to believe.
Oh Canada, our home, the natives land.
There are a lot of Canadian mining companies which mine in other countries and which the locals hate. There was a BBC report on how the people of an Indonesian island were protesting a Canadian gold mining company buying up their island. The CEO sounded like a jerk.
Great job. Effective communication of importance of wildlife and then reveal of threat to that wildlife. I think every viewer can see there needs to be a resolution. Thank you, Terramater team!
Hi Pete!
Thank you for the kind words, and for watching our videos! 🙌
Unfortunately, it's going to be exploited even if the company decides to abandon the project; some other may pick it up. It's situations like this which can lead to the IUCN's growing list of endangered species.
The countries that allowed these test sites are corrupt they don’t care about anything but their pockets
@@blank1778 Indeed.
@@blank1778 true, I feel like the only way we are to save a place like this or the rainforest in Brazil is to pay those people or counties not to exploit it
@@madrigale6396 honestly it seems like the only way unless your lucky and get a corrupt leader that actually cares about his surroundings it has happened before in Africa
The area of interest for oil harvesting is far away from the Delta. The 2 D strat results show fracking will not be considered and would be a great expense that is not needed for harvesting oil here.
I live in the fracking zone of Colorado. Fracking as I have observed in my local are is actually much less environmental damaging than older drilling methods. With fracking, drilling is concentrated in pad areas where multiple wells are drilled out horizontally. By concentrating the drilling in discreet spots, 3 to 4 miles apart, it is much easier to control environmental impacts. Even things like methane leakage can be controlled easier. While water usage may seem high for a fracked well it really is quite small compared to irrigation for agriculture and it is not continuous usage. In the area I live there has been no contamination of fracking chemicals with ground water. Waste water, if deep injected, will not cause any environmental damage either. One thing that can cause problems is the drilling ponds if they are not lined and covered with bird nets. So what I am saying is that fracked oil production in itself can be done in a non-environmentally destructive mannor. The concern I would have in this area would be if there is enough political pressure to insure that any oil extraction take place in a environmentally sound manner.
@Lungelo Khumalo there is all ready a industry in the area that is dependent the area not being environmentally trashed. It's the wildlife tourist industry. In fact, where do you thing the money came from to make this video? Hopefully, this current industry can put enough world wide political pressure on the oil companies and governments in this area to keep development under control.
That's a centrist look at it.
And would probably fly if the government really needs the economic boost.
But according to a paper released recently on climate change, projects like this should've been shut down yesterday ago.
Anything that can contribute to climate change at this point shouldn't be approved, and a green alternative should be used.
Namibia has a lot of sun.
It is practically built in a desertit can boost foreign direct investment through renewable energy, not through destroying its environment like this.
@@lu881 Well you could generate energy from the Sun there, yes, but that would pretty much only be useful to Namibia and its neighbors. Which is amazing, but I fail to see how that would be attractive to foreign investors. Oil on the other hand can be transported anywhere and it’s much easier to profit from.
@@saulofontoura
Totally understand the dilemma.
But any profits they receive would be short term.
Investment in oil at the moment is pretty much like investing in railways when planes are making regular passenger trips.
They will be left behind in the future, and will have to play catch-up in the renewable energy market which will probably be saturated, and dominated by Western companies, because they would've thrown their money in oil and oil would've been obsolete.
And they would be in the same position they're in once more.
They should invest in the future.
And just use renewables.
They're better off digging for lithium instead.
@@lu881 Railways will always matter for freight. Fast, cheap, high-capacity, and less carbon-intensive in bulk loads than flights. It's unattractive as infrastructure, but it can make a huge difference in market competition.
It's up to the PEOPLE of NAMIBIA to decide and their ELECTED OFFICIALS... "NOT OUTSIDERS", Not Me, Not You, not the World even. I will let the government and the party whom the people of Namibia keep re-electing over and over, decade after decade, since they were created as a Sovereign Nation in the early 1990's. The NAMIBIAN PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT determine who does exploration and for how long, also who does production and for how long and what kind, etc... they determine everything. THEY SAY STOP..... YOU STOP! THEY SAY DRILL.... YOU DRILL! Not the UN not RECON AFRICA , not ENVIRONMENTALIST, not CANADIAN GOVERNMENT not USA not the WORLD. IF NAMIBIAN GOVERNMENT say no to FRACKING ..... Guess what that means... NO FRACKING! FRACKING is no longer economical anymore anyways, you got to be extracting oil by CONVENTIONAL MEANS to be able to compete with Saudi Arabia. These days all the land based oil is found and produced using fracking. So you bring up that everybody's experience on RECON AFRICA team is from fracking.....ummm.... well of course it is.... that's the method used in USA and MEXICO because all the easy oil(CONVENTIONAL) in those once virgin basins of (eagle ford) has already been used up over the last 50 years in Texas. If you want people experienced in Conventional Oil on land then travel back in time to the 1920's to 1970's. Most are retired or dead. So to say they have experience in fracking is a no brainer....ugh the uneducated. Bet if the conservationist for land and animals worked together with RECON AFRICA instead of against them then could be a real good outcome. Show them where to plant trees along a new migration line so that elephants have bark to eat along the way, etc. New game wardens yo protect the animals, more people employed so less illegal poaching and deforestation. So much good can be done at the same time just tooo many negative mines and lack of trust of each other.
As long as there is huge money to be made, there is no limit to how far humans will go. Greed is the driving force of the "modern world"
Intresting!
However, I feel that it's almost always people from industrialized rich parts of the world who tend to think in this way. We already slaughtered our wilderness in order to get where we are. And we expect africans not to, they should just stay poor and have their lands be national parks for us to visit.
My point is, if we westerners wants africans to protect these sensitive areas and not drill for oil, we should pay for it. As much as we would have given for the oil. It's the same with the rain forest. Of course Brazil cuts it down. Living rainforest do not pay the bills. I'm from Sweden, we happily whine on Brazil while we keep having a huge mining and woodcutting industry as well as being huge consumers. Of course we can't stop mining and woodcutting, then we would become poor. Poor is something South Americans and Africans should be. Not us Swedes :)
Anyway. Great video. Caspian sent me.
There has to be some carbon offset tax for nations
Exactly what I was thinking ❤️
It's not really like the exploitation of oil in Africa by a North-American company would make the life of local people better. There aren't many countries that are rich thanks to their natural resources. Maybe an elite could become extremely rich, like in golf contries, but the common people would never see the benefit of this oil.
@@TheDovakhin01 A lot of countries see a huge benifit from natural resources.
I live in Botswana and no one here wants the oil company, we don't want them here because we cherish our environment, not because of money, we have a thriving diamond industry, 3 out of 4 of the world's biggest diamonds came from us. The goverment sponsors and pays students to go to school, free healtchcare and many other benefits. We are not poor.
Namibia is such a beautiful country. I’ve not been to Botswana but heard it is also amazing. Canadian oil companies need to keep the hell out. This behaviour is disgusting.
Not all the blame is on the Canadian company, our government will *gladly* sell out our land to line their pockets
Look around the Earth everywhere these type of people go your place gets destroyed. Paper money,clothes,shiny cars it's not worth it. I understand the West has brainwashed everybody Worldwide we all don't live like they show it on TV!!!
Africa is a beautiful country its so sad we are destroying it :(
Its sad we just use them :/ like we need nature without nature theres nothing i wish the government would understand this :c
Africa is not country
I learned about "KEY SPECIES" of an in a It's okay to be smart video. I think here elephants are that "KEY SPECIES" for this ecosystem
Great move Canada, you should be very proud of yourself. What do you do when you feel so helpless in the face of such rampant Gluttony. Some humans will not rest until they have destroyed everything.
If they screw it up, yup its bad news. If they do it properly, it could pull the locals out of poverty with minimal impact on the environment. The actual physical footprint of their infrastructure would be a drop in the Ocean and royalties from the oil could actually assist with protecting the area. Do I think ReconAfrica should be permitted to do it given the directors are selling stock while hyping the firm? No.
Caspian report brought me to your channel, so far I’m liking it and have subscribed
Wow this is amazing! Thank you so much! We are happy to have you as part of our Community 😊
A great example of people not having a good understanding of what's ACTUALLY happening in this area. I've been invested with recon since last year and follow the exploration extremely closely. I'm also very environmentally conscious and supportive. Recon is a Canadian company (meaning they must abide by all Canadian environmental laws even in Namibia) and they're doing a TON to help the environment there. Their initiative is carbon neutrality with their project (basically pumping Co2 back into the ground, to have a net effect of zero from their operations). They're planting thousands upon thousands of new trees. Recon is also providing funding for wildlife protection in the parks near them, to help stop poaching (which is the largest threat to wildlife in these areas and is rampant). They're drilling conventionally (no chemicals whatsoever) and they're using water based organic mud as a drilling fluid (can be used as fertilizer and is very expensive). They're drilling water wells for the namibian people to give thousands access to water they otherwise walk miles for every day. They're employing the local namibian people primarily for the jobs (already hundreds). This is a poor country with high unemployment and little food in these regions. Recon has the full support of the Namibian government, including their president. They will not be fracking, this has been made VERY clear by both recon africa and the Namibian government. It's an absolute no go. Conventional oil drilling is very safe, basically drill a hole, suck out the oil, fill the hole back in eventually and re-plant over it. The environmental concern here is almost nothing. They're over 200 miles away from the okavango delta and the river referenced is very far north of their exploration area. Any water they use comes from deep aquifers underground. Their wells are cased in cement so there is no chance for oil to leak out. Coming after this company and spreading lies about them is only going to hurt an incredibly impoverished country and people. This is the best and most responsible company to help namibia utilize their own resources and make the proper investments towards green energy (very expensive) and lift them out of abject poverty. I stand with that. I want to see namibia become a more prosperous country and that requires investments and money. They have no other means to become a more developed nation. This is the right move for them and it hurts nobody, certainly not the environment there. Namibia doesn't have the resources to develop their own resources, they NEED foreign investment and they're desperate for it. Left to their own development, their circumstance will not change. If you want to actually do some good in the world, help support this company in bringing these people the means to have better lives. Food, clean water, homes, and jobs.
Nice to read a different view. It is not always black or white.
Thank you for this! I almost blamed a company that is doing good work!
So many untrue facts in this video! Well I guess they need otherwise it would not be as interesting. This is potentially the best thing that could ever happen to Namibia.
Become energy independent instead of having to rely on importing from other countries, give people access to basic needs like electricity and water, give them an opportunity to get a job. Take the money and invest further in education for their children, wildlife protection (reduce any poaching), etc etc.
I could keep on going.
Exactly! Recon Africa is helping the people of Namibia. The government is very supportive of these efforts. The company has also drilled many water wells for these people.
That sounds reassuring, but the main point of the video wasn’t the economy of Namibia or its people, but the connectivity of the bordering national parks and the delta, for wildlife these migration routes are everything. Any advancement in that area is ought to be causing major disruption for the wildlife.
Where are they planting those thousands and thousands of forests? And from what funds?
Fixing co2 is great but what about methane?
Can you link sources to your points?
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Video: north American oil company
The world America no!
USA: what?
The world: sorry force of habit.
The world: Canada no!
Canada: oil. Yes.
Great video. Once again, fracking is terrible and we should work towards banning it on a global scale as soon as possible!
Thank you so much! 😊
That is so true! It is highly dangerous for the environment and the ecosystem - so raising more awareness about this problem is a good start!!
This needs to be shared
Nope. It belongs to Namibia. Go drill your own. Freeloader.
Thanks for spreading the word!
it's a shame what humans do to this BEAUTIFUL plant..☹😟
Caspian Report gang, please respond ;)
CaspianReport sent me here :)
Me too
Terra matter picking topics which others are afraid to bring up....love u guys..keep doing ur work!!
Hi sarath!
Thanks for the support and for watching our videos! !🙌
Phenomenal reporting
I can't even finish watching this its so sad
That's ok. I'll tell you what happened. They have found promising formations and are exploring further. The country hopes they will find producible reserves. Environmentalists are upset the people of Namibia may prosper.
One solution, the share price is negative today, only $4, I think people, instead of merely expressing frustration start purchasing the shres directly. Once when the combined force of investors tell the company to remove its function from this place, they by law will have to
Why would investors want to lose money lmao
Yeah, exactly, that's not how the stock market works
@@cuddlemuffin.9545 its not for the profit makers, it for the people who only cry and heave with no action.
@@navneetnair3314 it is, shareholders determine the running of the company
@@louvendran7273 yes I know, but the investors won't want to lose money would they? Removing their operations from the place would result in a net loss and the investors would lose their money, so there really isn't an incentive for them here
beautiful visual representation.
Well done!! there's a class action suit against all the people you mentioned share holders are lining up
I feel like all the species from 200,000 or so years ago really curse their luck for having to be the ones to experience humans :(
Dinosaurs probably just did their thing for millions of years with no issues… well almost
You mean humans who are created in the image of God with unique skills, talents, and are immeasurably precious to Him? Do you think humans are a plaque to Earth, it’s wildlife and ecosystem? Have your brains rotted completely inside your skull? Some are evil and exploit animals so lump us all together right donut?
The same way we hate mosquitos, animals are not all friendly puppies, some are dangerous and would not waste a second on killing prey or humans
@@scottchirco6191
Finally, a fellow humanist! I wanna know how many of these “animals-first” types eat animals or wear leather, or believe that predator-prey relationships exist only on TV 😂
I think it's right to be concerned a out the eco system, especially when fracking would be used but the economic benefits to Namiba should also be presented. Sollutions that mediate between both interests would also be interesring.
Mindful extraction and protecting lands is the key here, but Botswana and Namibia are (relatively) broke, and will circumvent any protected species’ status to squeeze out some revenue. Emissions-reduction is a fruitless cause, as they are extremely negligible in their influence on atmosphere and temperature. All this focus on carbon and not proper land and resource management; lol when you realize the globe was hotter in the 1910s-1950s when carbon was far lower in atmospheric concentration.
So true. We need the revenue. Off course Hage and his Swapo cronies will mos squander most of it, but at least we can maybe pay the Chinese loans back and get the economy rolling again.
One side wants profit over the wellbeing of people. There is no negotiating with that.
There will be no fracking. It's amazing how people can have an opinion without doing any research at all.
Personally I think making a statement based on one video on CZcams makes you FEEL smart and engaged, but it does the exact opposite for those who have looked into it.
@@jimrye4678 I just respinded to the video and, unlike the person who made the video I do not pretend to know very much about the topic. However after searching for it I do think that there are plans that at least consider starting fracking in the region.
Finding oil in its territory it's the worst thing that could happen to a developing country.
Imagine being the kind of guy watching this and be like "mh yeah that sounds pretty good"
I was expecting a Rhinoceros in the wildlife you showed.
But then I realised that the Chobe Black Rhinoceros, an endemic local subspecies of Black Rhinoceros, only found in the Chobe National Park, has only "one" individual Rhinoceros living.
Some of us know that the Northern White Rhinoceros (a subspecies of White Rhinoceros) has "2" individuals left.
And some care about the Northern White Rhinoceros but the Chobe Black Rhinoceros needs attention too
All rhinos matter
@@sergpie yeah what's even worse is that there are many subspecies of Rhinoceros with "low" numbers
Western Sumatran Rhinoceros - "50 individuals"
Bornean Rhinoceros - Atleast 2 individuals
Northern Sumatran Rhinoceros / Ear fringed Rhinoceros - "Less than a dozen, if any"
Indian Javan Rhinoceros - "Extinct"
Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros - "Extinct"
Indonesian Javan Rhinoceros - "60"
Chobe Black Rhinoceros - "1 INDIVIDUAL"
Southern Black Rhinoceros - "Extinct"
Western Black Rhinoceros - "Extinct"
Northeastern Black Rhinoceros - "Extinct"
Northern White Rhinoceros - "2 individuals"
Sunderban Dwarf Rhinoceros - "no individuals"
@@ghazalaansari9283
Poor babies 🦏
@@sergpie yeah and all because they are poached for their horns
Chinese and Vietnamese doctors prescribe rhinoceros horns, pangolin scales and everything unique like some unique wild monkey parts for natural substitute of viagra to all the way to treat cancer, none of this is proved to be effective at all
Wor to these traditional medicines
As a petroleum engineer I hate when they misrepresent a widely available science that is fracking. They love to put the oil reservoir right next to the water table, which is not the case. In the deepest places water can appear as deep as 500ft. Each region has its water table depths well defined. the least average reservoir is 3000ft deep, and most goes above 6000ft. So very far away from a water source.
Contamination of water is possible but almost all cases happen because of bad waste management on surface. Meaning even in the rare even contamination happens it is limited. From all that water injected to frack most of it its recovered +90% as it returns to surface and can be treated and used again. This is common for companies at it reduces cost and water must be compatible with the reservoir.
Yeah, sure... You work in this fu*ked up industry, why would you talk against it?
@@MysikrysaAwww yes. Great fallacy. Oh you’re an expert who knows what they are talking about? Well that just means you’re in on it.
@@lincolnlog5977 OMG that person´s username is literally "petrol".
We Namibians give full support to Recon... This people sitting on the other side of the world having opinions on our land should shut up...
Great video!
Hi, a!
We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
There is no fracking. The drill site is hundred of miles away from the delta. Namibia will received 50% through taxes. Striking oil will have major benefits to the people of Namibia. It hurts that I was sent here from caspian report, a Channel I really love. I don’t think you mentioned how recon Africa is also drilling 20 water wells for local villages.
Update for anyone who actually waste their time watching this video: Recon Africa has begun removing live mines.
Ever watch Star Trek?
How did the governments fishing license distribution go? And the exporting of Namibian rosewood ban? Did that stop. No the corrupt and smugglers still managed to get tons of these rare and ancient trees.
The fishrot and rosewood scandals just show that the elite and corrupt are the only ones benefiting from the projects and when it comes to this oil project in the Delta area I have no doubts that what is reported by government officials and what is reality are different
When was the last time western companies paid taxes to African nations?
@@botneo2427 Yeah boi 😎
@@botneo2427 i get taxed so the USA can send that money to every other country in the world including namibia 😂😂. Youre obviously ignorant. Read a book or anything besides Twitter.
I would have liked to hear more of ReconAfrica. Is the company supported by local governments? Are those govs corrupt?
@@PBFoote-mo2zr Keep these people poor so that the rich like us can have video to watch. Its sick the misinformation.
@@francoisp9776 How mentally sick one has to be to write a bull*it like your disgusting, gaslighting, psychopathic comment?
Corrupt as hell, learnt from big brother, South Africa.
Noticing the failure to disclose the number of local freshwater wells put in place by Recon for the sake of local populace that are completely unrelated to oil production. Good journalism tells all the facts. A simple internet search would find this.
3:56 what am I looking at? So dark and can't tell it's too zoomed in or too zoomed out.
I am sick of this crap happening... I am deeply disturbed by humans destruction fuelled by greed.take your share holders and profit and feed the executives to the lions
This situation involves so many aspects that is hard to objectively judge it, some people points how it can help the economy but, will that really happen? I live in a country with one the greatest reserves of oil in the world and with one of the worse economies because from the start the oil companies/big executives/government are the only ones getting the big money out of it not the country, plus if one of those water sources gets poisoned it will not only effect the whole ecosystem but also all the population living out of those water sources and if this project is successful who can guarantee that this "small piece of land" use for extraction won't keep growing and growing until it push out all the species living there? I would like to believe that if they keep it up they will do it responsibly but I honestly doubt it, profits is the only thing that matters for these people.
Are you from Venezuela?
@Frei HT
you have spoken well.
Great video! Mama Africa needs all the help she can get...
Yes. Hopefully they will find lots of oil and prosperity will result.
Cool, thanks
0:24 I really thought that it's a language itself in that part of Africa
She got me too...🤣
Well its a launge and its in the part of Africa so your not wrong
She is speaking Ovambo.
This video needs a substantial amount of context to be provided.
These exotic wildlife-rich nations, are poor. For their citizens trying to survive on low income, poaching is an extremely lucrative market. The lack of good paying jobs in these areas is what causes an unreasonable amount of destruction of wildlife and it’s ecosystems. No jobs in these areas can also mean revolt- and ultimately; WAR.
Sure, you won’t have oil being sucked out of the ground with brand new technology that is designed to be more eco-friendly than the traditional image of drilling that we have in our minds with smog and polluted rivers. But you’ll have people killing every inch of exotic wildlife trying to make a living, you’ll have bombs blowing up factories and vehicles and gas stations, you’ll have indirect disasters in your region. The truth is that these energy companies are not perfect, and no energy company is. However, they do have an image to uphold. They want a “clean” reputation. Their intention is simply not to destroy the area they are drilling in- like in this case. Energy companies WANT other countries to trust them to drill within their lands. The money that it takes for them to do this is nothing to them when they consider how much money they’ll still be making at the end of the day. It’s a win-win for everyone involved. The country which will be more politically stable when it’s people are happy and working, it’s people who will be more financially stable by being put to work, and the companies who can maximize their profits.
This video is extremely ignorant. It bases its entire argument off “non renewable bad” “oil and ecosystem don’t get along”, etc etc. It’s nothing more than some NPC overly-awoke bullshit without any in-depth context or logic being taken into consideration.
for even more context; they are not only rich in exotic wildlife but they are also rich in resources, resources that are used to uphold big economies of the west etc, economies who then provide "aid" when they are basically stealing from them in the first place.. this video is not ignorant at all- in fact it is highlighting a very important truth that the lives we live, cities urbanization and over consumption, are unsustainble, wreckless and harmful to ourselves and others. You are right, war is definitely a possibility when it comes to such a situation, because of underlying greed that persists in how we humans are currently living.
In Alberta, I frequently drive through areas where there has been significant oil based development and many wells in some areas. The land disturbance is minimal, the sites are clean. Other than the immediate sites (which are small areas), there is little disturbance to the local landscape with virtually no impact on wildlife. Disruption from putting pipelines in the ground leading to pumping stations are temporary, and are hard to detect once they are covered and the land is reclaimed..
It is easy for people to downplay such development when they are living good lives that come from or depend on the peotroleum industry in one way or another.
It is funny that they don't mention how this company has already improved the lives of many people in the area by drilling water wells so they have easy access to clean water as well as providing jobs and training for many as well.
Of course the development needs to be monitored so that it does not lead to the destruction of the area in the future.
If they follow the environmental guidelines we have in Canada, I would not hesitate to let them develop near where I live.
Villagers in Namibia also woke up to 36 water wells drilled by Reconnaissance Energy, who is hardly "big oil". Geologic data has already ruled out the need for fracking the formations and the wells are cased with steel pipe and concrete to prevent ground water contamination. There is so much environmental hyperbole in this story that is is almost unwatchable.
1:45 the elephant's paths of migration
6:10 it is unclear how a couple handful of sites (a fraction the footprint of a Costco store) might seriously impede elephant movement across such a vast space -thoughts?
Roads and pipelines noise and wildlife has learned to stay away from us due to poaching and hunting. A few people already rich get richer at our world's expense
I think it Is because those small sites will still poison large areas of land due to them being so close to rivers and the rivers being connected to the delta. the poisoning of the water will kill off plant life over large areas. this would impede on elephant movement due to how they migrate, elephants will travel searching for new greenery throughout that multinational park following old 'Elephant Roads' (created by thier ancestors) easily (it is actually a very small plot of land for them to migrate across, they used to migrate across the howl of Southern Africa). If the plant life along those roads is dying then elephants won't be able to feed themselves on thier journey, thus interrupting elephant movement.
Additionally those roads will often follow rivers, so just by the rivers being poisoned, means that elephants would not be able to migrate cause they could not rehydrate.
Last point is that Elephants are naturally very aggressive and are even more so in those parts due to poaching (elephants know that humans hurt them, they are very smart animals), the movement of vehicles in that area will result in many cases where elephants will destroy these vehicles witch will cause the oil company to push them out of the area, additionally those sights could be on old elephant roads.
Those small sites are like cancer in that ecosystem
Liberal do-gooders who live in luxury compared to these people want to oppress people of another country just so they can do some virtue signalling.
@@Critical-Thinker895
Notice how it's a foreign company doing the development
this is dead sad, and the fact that this could be an scam its just awful
There was already a case of a scammer who destroyed part of rainforest in south America just to make his scam look like real thing, destroyed the environment and run away with money from the investors and if I remember correctly, he also probably faked his own death.
This is disturbing and sad
Probably would have been better for the environment to just expand oilsands capacity in Canada!
Terra Mater helps a lot to raise awareness I love your videos
Thank you so much for your kind words! We are hoping to raise as much awareness as possible with our topics and videos 😊
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS REPORT. IF WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE A PLANET, We must stop Big Oil.
How much death are you willing to embrace?
And the governments of countries that allow this. The Namibian government is just as much to blame as ReconAfrica.
who else here from CaspianReport?
Why this was not discuss in the COP summit.
I remember back when I was a kid. A bunch of dudes dragged a tree into the cave and set it on fire. I remember the warmth, but I knew it was just the start of big timber. Then came those ranchers and their cattle"big rancher" soon to be followed by "big Farmer" and their wheat and cotton. Big copper was soon followed by big iron. We could solve this problem by getting rid of all those other people not part of my clan. And I could live at peace in my cave with my clan, that is what's important to the earth.
You certainly are contrarian
This video was very analytical and informative. Well executed. I was wondering what are the Canadian Environmental Agencies saying about this? Are they stretching to find out more and actually denounce the CEO and the rest?
Canada's Department of Environment has no authority in Namibia. Namibia is an independent country and makes it's own decisions.
@@normanwells2755 And they are not doing anything wrong/dangerous to the environment there.
Damn I have these guys on my stock watchlist
Hi, I worked in Arabian leopard conservation, and ready to cooperate in producing a report about this critically endangered animal.
Hi الإستدامة! Keep up with the good job!
I live in the US in a relatively "remote rural region" with a "unique area of biodiversity which relies heavily on river water" and there's tons of oil wells throughout the area which are a Godsend to the economy and I never even notice them. Guess I didn't realize my Wildlife Paradise was destroyed, aw man, what am I gonna do. I better go tell all the wildlife they've been annihilated, they're still roaming around like nothing's wrong.
LOL. Poignant, accurate, and funny. Love it!
Great comment. I hate these either or conversations. It is possible to have a booming oil economy and protect the environment. The real issue is will there be political corruption? Unfortunately, history has proven that is more likely. Where there’s corruption there would be great pollution.
@@PBFoote-mo2zr No, I am my own person. I just elected not to use the youtube address that I have associated with my normal account because I do not want to deal with the backlash from the hordes of people paid by those with short positions.
Here's a thought. Go to the ReconAfrica website, and read everything on the investor tab. Then read/watch everything on the media tab. You can find the website quite easily with a google search. This one action will allow you to disprove the majority of the falsehoods in this video.
Next, google "Geingob tears into investor critics". It's article on the Namibian Sun that was posted on 8/11/2021.
If you do this small amount of research, you will have a vastly different opinion of Terra Mater and their motives. They are either being sponsored by someone with a short position or they are short the stock themselves. They benefit by driving the value of the stock down. That's the only real motive these people have...
@@PBFoote-mo2zr this comments are so weird, they came to this video just to say how wonderful and perfect this company is, leaving no proof of that, while in the video description theres a lot of links and sources to the things being said. Theres even a comment saying that "if western big oil stopped the chinese will be ready to take over" wtf is wrong with this people
@@humpiestgibbon3809 if your only source to climing that this company is doing absolutely no harm is a page made by that verry same company then is not really a good source. It has to be something that cant be biased
This is so heartbreaking, humans are so greedy and cruel, poor animals deserve better. Thank you Terra Mater for shedding light on this topic, more people needs to see this. I am gonna share it.
Thank you so much for spreading the word and raise awareness Arfan 😊
Thanks for caring & sharing♡ the Earth needs your compassion, dedication & love now more than ever♡
@@lenafromterramater3690 woah u guys replied!! Thank u. And yeah anytime! I love all the videos and they are so fascinating yet striking. All of us need to come together and spread awareness towards climate change as still so many people are ignorant. If we don't act now, we never can.
capitalism brings about environmental destruction like no other economic system
@@HelloAllie you're welcome but I feel it was my responsibility to share, such paradise cannot be destroyed by human greed. And yess agreed, the Earth needs all of our compassion, dedication, and love.
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Glad I watched.
We are glad too Daniel 😊Welcome Here at Terra Mater!
You deny my place in time,
You squander wealth that's mine
That's Recon
Probably won't even clean up the mess they make
Btw, Angola just changed the constitution to allow resource extraction in protect areas. This mean, they will start explore resource in the upstream part of Okavango. This won't end well.
I think i want to read that news if you have the source btw
Sounds Donald Trump to me!
All three of these countries are fairly wealthy. They are not starved and desperate. All are middle income countries.
Hopefully with local companies?
@@galadriellothlorien4811
Trump opened Bureau of Land Management and federally-owned lands to extraction, none of which were in areas deemed sensitive or housing threatened species. Like, how do you even compare the two?
Not that the USA has a perfect track-record, but we have done far more than ANY African nation could ever aspire to do, when it comes to safeguarding our - and others’- environment.
I’ve been to mining operations in Africa and South America and the disrespect one can commit on “protected land” with a wad of cash handed to some dude with a rifle, is insane. I’ve seen swathes of rainforest canopies- orchids and bird nests and all- lying chopped-up on the ground for what ultimately ended up being about 50 carats of gem material. A literal small handful. This was overseen not by an operator or manager of the mining company, but by the custodian of the land itself!
Try to find an analog of that in modern USA or Western Europe. I’ll wait.
Instead of blaming Canada for drilling oil there, why don't we blame the african officials who secure them the licenses to do so? If you arent willing to protect yourself and what is yours, dont expect others to do any better. Afghanistan recently is a good example of that.
PS. Ain't Canadian or defending Canada in this statement
Nobody is blaming canada. This is alarmist and based on b.s by short sellers who are on the hook for millions.
This screams of a hit piece.
Indeed but thats what happens when most people there are uneducated and are run power hungry politicians.
Here are my two cents as a Namibian. Everyone is to blame, just because the Canadian company can’t hand themselves the licenses doesn’t mean they aren’t wrong. You say you aren’t defending Canada but you very much are when you try and shift the blame in one direction. Everyone is who has a hand in this is at fault period.
@@nande67 Canada is using an opportunity here, they are to blame because it dangers the wildlife and they surely know it. But I hold Namibia accountable for all of this more than canada because it's your nation, your land and your country. If you arent gonna defend it and keep it intact, you can't expect someone else from another country to do it for you. Hence the example of today's Afghanistan.
@@TreacherousFennec The accountability is shared, there is no one more accountable than the other, they are working to benefit each other, its not a one-sided arrangement. We've been in the streets protesting about it for months, we as the people can only do so much to stop it.
Is there anything that we can do to help?
Stocks YES environment NO. will backfire in the future ...
But...stonks....🙁
A typical Western depiction of Africa. Out of 14 mins, 0 seconds were dedicated to the ACTUAL people living there. The entire video was focused on the wildlife, and Western ‘exploitation’.
The Kvango region (East/West) in Namibia is one of the more densely populated areas in the country, particularly near the river. Not one second was allocated in the video to talk about the lack of economic development, non-existent schooling, and nearly non-existent infrastructure.
Heck, most kids don’t even schools to attend to in the area. Any aspect of Africa modernizing immediately berated by Westerners like you.
Well, there have to be better alternatives for the people than letting oil companies come in and pillage the wilderness, the one resource they can't replace.
We need to do better as humanity for these vulnerable nations. Both the indigenous culture and the environment need to be respected by enterprises that come to invest, aka "help." As far as I've seen in Africa, the main beneficiaries of foreign oil or mining collaboration are the government and the companies' shareholders, not the people or affected communities.
Btw Google Earth the Athabasca Tar Sands, which have been/are being drilled by most of the world's major oil companies. You'll see the ugliness there and the poor efforts at "restoring" the area. Also, the First People's costs have outweighed whatever meagre benefits.
@@erinmcdonald7781 "There have to be better alternatives...", "We need to do better as humanity for these vulnerable nations", its all hopeful, wishful thinking that doesn't do anyone any good.
When are the alternatives coming? How are local governments supposed to respond to encroachment when there are hardly ANY industries. How can local governments govern, when they can even barely educate their own citizens to even provide primary education.
Your intentions although noble, are naive. The international community is unreliable. Heck, we have a documented genoicde in China and yet no one is doing anything.
"As far as I've seen in Africa..." You've seen wrong. The local governments hardly have any tax dollars to provide for their citizens. It seems to me that you're unfamiliar with the hostility of the African environment. How do you think much of the world has escaped poverty? By extracting resources and transitioning into more service based economies. In most of the world you can farm, grow crops, and sell them. Can you do that in Kvango region with millions of Wildabeest, roaming elephants, and man-eating carnivores?
The point is, you're dealing with EXTREME poverty. All and any attempts by Africans to gain control over their environments is seen as sacrilegious. It's short-sighted, unempathetic, and naive thinking like yours that's harmful to the betterment of society.
@@erinmcdonald7781 What cost of the First Nations are you referring to? I lived and even worked in Alberta.
The biggest cost to the First Nations was first being forcefully confined to their reserves by the white European Canadian government.
Resource extraction isn't pretty. Have you seen an oil rig? Have you seen a mine? You can google this. How do you think your phone screen was made? Did it magically show up, or were the minerals mined and the fuel burned.
But did you know the benefits the Tar Sands have provided? In the early 2010's, you could go to Alberta, work in ANY industry, and immediately have more than enough to provide for your family.
All people want to have is opportunity. Right now, the locals in Kvango region, have almost no opportunity. The majority are bushmen. An oil field will hopefully allow them to provide for their families.
@@goofguy316 You do make some astute arguments, and I am perhaps somewhat idealistic, what you call naïve. Your point about the international community selectively turning a blind eye is correct. On the whole it is unreliable, or if assistance comes, it's with strings attached.
It's easy for me to make armchair observations, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong. One thing I do know is that western world powers made their "progress" exploiting the resources and labor of other peoples and countries, colonialism, imperialism. In many ways that's still true if you think about the cargo containers of cheap goods that flow into the US from China, or the oil that's drilled in Nigeria, but unavailable to the locals. Even the oil produced in US/Canada is often piped through tribal lands and processed near/in minority communities, where leaks, fumes, and contamination are hazards.
I understand these countries face extreme poverty and lack of basic infrastructure, but dealing with the devil is not necessarily the answer. From what I've seen these multinational corporations are accountable to no one, and any country that thinks they're getting a straight deal is mistaken. These nations would be better off working with smaller, well vetted companies, and looking at what other options they have such as eco tourism, sustainable agriculture, or things related to local skills and labor forces. Some African countries have backed out of similar deals with China. Likewise, deals can be turned down with western companies.
There is no quick fix for everything that needs to be done. If the countries in that region could work together, it'd probably help them have better leverage. But, they shouldn't take these companies at face value. Allowing exploitation on top of post colonial poverty is only going to hurt these nations in the long run. Ideally the best solutions will be home grown, developed and carried out by their own people, maybe similar to revival of ancient farming strategies in the Sahel as an example.
If you don’t want people in the global south to become rich through ecologically harmful methods, petition your governments to help them build the infrastructure to avoid it. Don’t just get mad at a shady company or blame the Namibian government for being interested in economic development. For the most part, human beings follow the path of least resistance + the path of highest incentive. Make it easier and more worthwhile for Namibia to not exploit their oil reserves.
The people who complain about his don't want to spend their own money.
How can we spread the word and what can we do?
Share this video and help us reach as many people as possible 🙌 Thank you Alex!
People can be so dang greedy! That's so wrong. I pray for these bad greedy people, that could care less about our climate or our animals.
I would buy into your story more, if they didn't lie so much about Keystone XL pipeline. As an industrial Engineer I don't work in this field, but I know that a pipeline is safer than a train (but the trains are owned by Bloomberg, Gates and Warren Buffet). So, I'm sorry I've lost faith in these 'fear' tactics used in the USA to stop the XL Pipeline to make Buffet richer.
Hey, Terra Mater! Could you, please, link to a page (or doc) that has the video's transcript. I am an Eastern European English teacher, and I sometimes use such videos as teaching material; both for the language, and for the topic.
Hey Claudiu, please leave us a short note at social@terramater.com.
Thanks!
Oh good, glad to see a teacher is spreading misinformation to their students. Maybe you should teach your students how to do research first. 🙄
If they destroy the okavanga delta, that would be heart breaking... one of the absolute most beautiful places on earth.. quit running our world
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Really fracking is dengerous for planet
Fracking is a very clean method of petroleum extraction
Protect the nature and the animals
That truly is highly important 🙌
@@lenafromterramater3690 Why don't wildlife stop them?
Protecting our environment must be prior to anything else, if we lose our planet where will we go?
Mars. Hence Elon Musk.
@@chadscott5223 and then what are we gonna do when we destroy Mars the same way we destroyed the earth?
@@ccproductions50ify next one
@@feelsweirdman_1823 y’all are really ok with having an endless trail of destruction 💀
Protecting the environment is a really vague proposition; like, I get the notion of not shitting where one eats (talking to you India and Ghana), but what does that mean, really? Ought we not to protect ourselves from the environment, and not the other way around?
To wait and see what happens is no different than just doing it for them. It’s already too late to stop it.
Forest in Africa and Amazon must be protected at all cost, even if valuable resources which could potentially change their lives are found. No need for reforesting Europe or America, as the lifestyle of western countries are far more important than the environment.
It doesn't matter an average developed country generates more than ten times the carbon emission per capita compared with developing countries. Change in lifestyle for western countries like establishing and using public transport like buses or trains might be catastrophic and Germany does needs its autobahn with no speed limits and one car per person. Countries like India and China need to bear the cost and reduce their carbon emission to nothing and live in stone age if possible.
Just looked into it and apparently this video is just alarmist manure. This company, ReconAfrica, has already brought tons of jobs to Namibia and the country seems very excited about the prospects from Namibian news I see. The work they're doing is barely leaving a mark and I see slightly older articles claiming this work will ruin the "Okavango Delta", yet that's nowhere near where they're working.
Jobs are not the problem, loss of biodiversity and species is the main worry.
Jobs are already plenty through tourism and Savannah safaris. Let the oil remain underground.
20,000 feet deep and this alarmist says the fractures will get into the ground water... to break 20,000 feet of cement, brick, sandstone x 100 would need the worlds largest nuclear weapon. Not like the middle of nowhere in Africa is gonna have big water pumps anyway... Corrupt Government, yes. Infrastructure to get frac equipment anywhere near the well, no.
@@PBFoote-mo2zr I guess the point of my argument was that there is no way to fracture 20,000 feet of strata with the technology we have today. If a corrupt government wants to pour oil all over it's people and it's wildlife, then it's going to happen. If it's oil or if it's bullets.
@@PBFoote-mo2zr you think we should go to war with them?
There are so many misleading things in this video it is amazing that people are so complimentary of this work.
here is a question: who licences it to them`?
In Angola the government try to do the same but failed