Photos

The photos and text below represent a brief view of activities and other aspects from Namibia 's CBNRM programme.

Development in Namibia 's rural areas requires wise use of natural resources and depends on human capacity and skills

A collection of elephant jawbones from the 1980s, when illegal hunting was rife in the Kunene Region. A rural Namibians had no legal rights over wildlife, poaching was one of the few ways in which they could benefit from game.

A staff member of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism receives training at a workshop.

A woman and her child pick berries in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy. Many Namibians depend on veld foods as a source of nutrition.

The black rhinoceros is one of Africa 's most endangered species. Due to an intensive conservation pogramme involving rural people, black rhino populations in the Kunene Region have more than doubled in the past 20 years.

Representatives of Nyae Nyae, Salambala, =Khoadi //Hoas and Torra conservancies display their registration certificates presented at the Gift to the Earth Ceremony in September 1998.

During 1999, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism captured springbok in Etosha National Park and donated the animals to Nyae Nyae Conservancy, A series of game translocations to conservancies have helped to restock wildlife populations in communal area conservancies.

While a sight like this may be what many tourists dream of, elephants often cause serious damage to water installations in Namibia 's arid north west .

Literacy levels are low in many of Namibia 's rural areas, and written support materials are not always appropriate. A card game spreads awareness of the requirements for the gazetting of a conservancy, and a board game, based on Monopoly, teaches financial management skills.

Sale of thatching grass supplements many household incomes in the Kavango regions of Namibia .

Damaraland Camp - a private sector-conservancy partnership. This toursit camp situated in the Torra conservancy as contributed towards the conservancies’ financial sustainability. Torra conservancy is today a financially self-sustaining organisation.

The road to a trophy-hunting camp in the Nyae Nyae conservancy. Trophy-hunting generated much-needed revenue for conservancies

A variety of crafts are created using natural resources. Some entrepreneurs have opened roadside craft stalls from which they sell items to passing tourists.

Anmire traditional village in the Kunene Region affords tourists an opportunity to learn about Damara and Herero culture.

Conservancy resource monitors in eastern Caprivi have raised awareness among local people about sustainable use of natural resources

A Himba woman sells local craft.

Lizauli Traditional Village in eastern Caprivi provides visitors with an insight in day-to-day village life.

Training workshops actively encourage the involvement of women.

Game counts are an essential activity in conservancies. Knowledge about game in an area assists people to develop management plans and activities for the future.

Namibia 's CBNRM programme and NCSO partners have received international and national recognition and awards from several organisations. In 1998 President Sam Nujoma, received a Gift to the Earth Award on behalf of the programme.