Photo courtesy of Namibia Tourism Board Namibia’s Hai//om San community have launched a court case which they hope will lead to the recognition and enforcment of their ancestral rights over Etosha National Park and the Mangetti area. This is the first case of its kind in Namibian legal history. [...]
We here at etoshanationalpark.org have kept a close eye on the fight against poaching in our beloved national park and right across Namibia. So we’re happy to hear that 36 suspected poachers have been arrested since a police operation was launched a month or so ago. […]
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. […]
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 […]
