Latest Ngowp Podcast Episodes
(3 translated) Mil vozes de Tempué (português)
Guardians of the River - April 18, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsDevido a conflitos civis, minas terrestres, estradas danificadas e uma pista de aterragem abandonada, uma vila com o nome de Tempué está desconectada do resto de Angola. Ao longo das mudanças de liderança, a vila protegeu os rios e lagos que correm ali próximo. Estando agora perante uma oportuni...
Mil vozes de Tempué
Guardians of the River - April 18, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsDevido a conflitos civis, minas terrestres, estradas danificadas e uma pista de aterragem abandonada, uma vila com o nome de Tempué está desconectada do resto de Angola. Ao longo das mudanças de liderança, a vila protegeu os rios e lagos que correm ali próximo. Estando agora perante uma oportuni...
On the Edge of Home (Setswana)
Guardians of the River - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsOkavango Delta ke sekao sa gore go ka nna jang ha batho ba tsaa tsia dikhumo tsa tholego. Le thokometswe ka fa molaong ke legotla la UNESCO. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. Ke naga e tletseng diphologolo ka mehuta, jaanong seo se dira gore e nne sekgantshwane sa Bojanala leha...
(5 translated) On the Edge of Home - Setswana
Guardians of the River - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsOkavango Delta ke sekao sa gore go ka nna jang ha batho ba tsaa tsia dikhumo tsa tholego. Le thokometswe ka fa molaong ke legotla la UNESCO. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. Ke naga e tletseng diphologolo ka mehuta, jaanong seo se dira gore e nne sekgantshwane sa Bojanala leh...
Introducing: TED Climate
Guardians of the River - September 22, 2021 11:36 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsThank you for listening to the first season of Guardians of the River. There's more on the way, but today we're featuring a preview of a new show you might enjoy: TED Climate. This episode asks, what if there were 1 trillion more trees on the planet? Host Dan Kwartler takes us behind the bar...
8. The Runway
Guardians of the River - August 12, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsIn the final episode of this season, we ask the biggest question of all; the one that persists beneath many of the world’s most pressing headlines, and haunts us in the face of a global climate crisis. How do we protect our home? And Is this question in and of itself — impossible? Utopian? Pat...
The Runway
Guardians of the River - August 12, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsIn the final episode of this season, we ask the biggest question of all; the one that persists beneath many of the world’s most pressing headlines, and haunts us in the face of a global climate crisis. How do we protect our home? And Is this question in and of itself — impossible? Utopian? Pat...
7. The Land at the End of the World
Guardians of the River - August 05, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsIn Eastern Angola, a group of lakes might occupy some of the least visited corners of the planet. They feel like a world without industrial development, proof that humans can’t be so bad if there are still places like this. It’s so good, that maybe...the best thing to do to protect it is stay ou...
The Land at the End of the World
Guardians of the River - August 05, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsIn Eastern Angola, a group of lakes might occupy some of the least visited corners of the planet. They feel like a world without industrial development, proof that humans can’t be so bad if there are still places like this. It’s so good, that maybe...the best thing to do to protect it is stay ou...
6. Koki's Plan
Guardians of the River - July 22, 2021 11:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsKoketso Mookodi, also known as Koki, is a Motswana who didn’t learn about the Okavango Delta until she found herself living in the Delta in her 20’s, being stalked by a female lion and working in a luxury tourism lodge. As her journey through the region unfolds, Koki realizes what kind of change...
Koki's Plan
Guardians of the River - July 22, 2021 11:37 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsKoketso Mookodi, also known as Koki, is a Motswana who didn’t learn about the Okavango Delta until she found herself living in the Delta in her 20’s, being stalked by a female lion and working in a luxury tourism lodge. As her journey through the region unfolds, Koki realizes what kind of change...
The Edge of Home
Guardians of the River - July 15, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsThe Okavango Delta is what happens when people pay attention to the environmental wealth of a place. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. And for its animals and its immeasurable feeling of wilderness, it is a major tourism destination. But not all residents have been included in...
5. The Edge of Home
Guardians of the River - July 15, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsThe Okavango Delta is what happens when people pay attention to the environmental wealth of a place. It’s the world’s 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage site. And for its animals and its immeasurable feeling of wilderness, it is a major tourism destination. But not all residents have been included in...
The Smallest Dragonfly
Guardians of the River - July 08, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsIn some Angolan traditions, magic is not just something people sit around campfires and talk about late at night, it lives in customs and day-to-day life. Owls are believed to see death. And snakes are agents of the devil. So what happens when a team of scientists and local Angolan guides embark...
4. The Smallest Dragonfly
Guardians of the River - July 08, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsIn some Angolan traditions, magic is not just something people sit around campfires and talk about late at night, it lives in customs and day-to-day life. Owls are believed to see death. And snakes are agents of the devil. So what happens when a team of scientists and local Angolan guides embark...
A Thousand Voices of Tempué
Guardians of the River - June 24, 2021 06:16 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsDue to civil conflicts, landmines, broken roads, and a decommissioned runway, a town called Tempué is cut off from the rest of Angola. As powers rise and fall, the town has guarded the rivers and lakes that run near it. Now facing an opportunity to reconnect to the rest of Angola -- and the worl...
3. A Thousand Voices of Tempué
Guardians of the River - June 24, 2021 06:16 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsDue to civil conflicts, landmines, broken roads, and a decommissioned runway, a town called Tempué is cut off from the rest of Angola. As powers rise and fall, the town has guarded the rivers and lakes that run near it. Now facing an opportunity to reconnect to the rest of Angola -- and the worl...
Ghost Elephants of Lisima
Guardians of the River - June 17, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsA population of elephants in Angola lives in hiding, and only a few villages know their secret. But one big hint to their whereabouts stands tall in the main rotunda of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. If the NGOWP team can find them, these elephants might be the key to smooth...
2. Ghost Elephants of Lisima
Guardians of the River - June 17, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsA population of elephants in Angola lives in hiding, and only a few villages know their secret. But one big hint to their whereabouts stands tall in the main rotunda of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. If the NGOWP team can find them, these elephants might be the key to smooth...
Power to Protect
Guardians of the River - June 10, 2021 12:13 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsA team of scientists and tribes members embark on an epic four-month National Geographic expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realize their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like d...
1. Power to Protect
Guardians of the River - June 10, 2021 12:13 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 218 ratingsA team of scientists and tribes members embark on an epic four-month National Geographic expedition to follow a trickle of water 1,500-kilometers across Southern Africa. As their journey unfolds, they realize their real quest will take trust, a team, and an alliance with a legendary snake-like d...
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