2019

  • 4 September 2019
    Exchange visit

    The CBNRM programme in Namibia has a proud conservation record. It was developed and is run by rural communities living in communal areas, with assistance from the MET (Ministry of Environment and Tourism), NACSO (Namibia Association of CBNRM Support Organisations) and partner organisations.

    Every year, NACSO plays host to visitors from other countries’ governmental and non-governmental organisations that come to learn about the CBNRM (Community Based Natural Resources Management) programme in Namibia. The visits are an advantage to both parties, because Namibia also learns about conservation practices in other parts of the world. Over the past few years, NACSO has hosted visitors from Mozambique, Nepal, Uganda and Tanzania.

    Early in March 2019, NACSO hosted a group of government officials from Nepal, who came to share CBNRM experiences and specifically to understand the approach adopted by Namibia to encourage community-based tourism.

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  • 18 April 2019
    Team work between partners combatting wildllife crime

    The lion rangers found fresh footprints and followed them slowly and cautiously. Noises ahead alerted them to the fact that not all was well. Then they moved forward vigilantly from bush to bush in the sparse semi-desert landscape, searching intently ahead. Their sharp eyes soon picked out a group of three young men with thirteen dogs over the lifeless form of a freshly killed kudu calf.

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  • 3 April 2019
    Combatting wildlife crime in Zambezi Region – Namibia

    Wildlife crime is at the top of the international conservation agenda. In Namibia, a total of 86 communal conservancies manage wildlife outside of 12 national parks and rural Namibians earn income from tourism, related to high value species such as elephants and rhinos.

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  • 23 February 2019
    Prosecutors, magistrates and judges meet to combat wildlife crime

    Twenty two participants attended a regional judiciary and prosecutor workshop in Windhoek, Namibia, last week as part of the USAID-funded Combatting Wildlife Crime Project in north western Namibia and the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation area: KAZA.

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  • 11 February 2019
    Wildlife Police use SMART technology to track poachers

    Two elephant tusks, each cut in half: 22.8 kilograms of ivory, led to the arrest of two suspects in the western Zambian town of Senanga late in 2018. The team of Wildlife Police Officers who took part in the operation were pleased with the day’s work.

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