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. […]
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%. […]
In response to the recent increase in rhino deaths caused by poaching in the country, Namibia has begun dehorning rhinos in the northern Kunene and Omusati regions on the border of Angola and Erongo. Deputy Environment Minister Pohamba Shifeta cited these areas as the most at risk from poaching. […]
You might remember a while ago we published a post about the implementation of anti-poaching drones in Etosha National Park. The post reported that last year Google joined the fight against the scourge of poaching, donating 5 million dollars to the WWF to build automated, lightweight surveillance drones with a view to helping anti-poaching units [...]
You may remember some months ago we published a blog about proposed upgrades to Etosha National Park. Over the past 5 years, MCA-Namibia, with the help of funding from the American governement’s Millenium Challenge Corporation , has invested a massive US$67 million in tourism projects. US$41 million of that investment went towards managerial and infrastructural [...]
