Conversations about the conservation of southern Africa’s wildlife have moved up a gear in recent weeks. It all began with the much-publicized and highly controversial killing of a black rhino by an American hunter in our very own Etosha. […]
A new study that used GPS tracking data to analyze the movement patterns of elephants inside Etosha National Park has proved that the animals’ exceptional memories of their habitats and their resources makes a valuable contribution to their survival in such a challenging environment. […]
Most visitors to Etosha are drawn by the abundance of large mammals, including all of the ‘Big 5’ and a whole lot of other African favourites. But South African photographer Johan Greyling had other things in mind during his two week trip to Etosha in 2014. […]
Early in 2013, I wrote an article for The Big Issue called ‘Sounding the Horn’, which pondered why the scourge of poaching that has afflicted South Africa in recent years hadn’t taken hold in neighbouring Namibia, which has the largest population of black rhinos in the world. […]
Namibia is an increasingly regular presence on most lists of the best world travel destinations, but there remains considerable room for improvement with regards to the number of jobs that are created by the country’s growing tourism sector, with the country’s unemployment rate still at 51%. […]
As always at this time of year, you’ll see a number of international newspapers, magazines and so on publishing their lists of the top destinations to visit in 2015. Have a quick glance through a handful of such publications and you’ll see that Namibia probably features on every single one of them [...]
