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Rural Namibians respond to hunting campaigns – Current Conservation

Resource Africa Feb 08, 2022 0 Comments

Rural Namibians respond to hunting campaigns - Current Conservation “We depend on generating income from elephant hunting which we invest back into the conservation of the species. If we stop hunting elephants, poaching will rise because the conservancy will not have any income to contribute the livelihood of its community. We have about 40 people who are employed by the conservancy and their...

Understanding the Kunene Wildlife Numbers

Resource Africa Oct 08, 2021 0 Comments

Understanding the Kunene Wildlife Numbers An article submitted by the Namibian Association of CBNRM Organisations (Nacso) was published in The Namibian on 7 October 2021. The article is based on a broader research piece, published here: A recent opinion editorial published in The Namibian used our 2021 game count data from the Kunene Region as a reason to undermine...

Community perspectives of empowerment from trophy hunting tourism in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park – Journal Of Sustainable Tourism. Authors: Thomsen et al. 2021

Resource Africa Mar 07, 2021 0 Comments

Africa disgruntled over CBD – The Namibian. Shigwedha 2019-08

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The Event Book System: a community-based natural resource monitoring system from Namibia Authors: Greg Stuart-Hill Richard Diggle, Bevan Munali, Jo Tagg and David Ward 2005

Resource Africa Dec 10, 2020 0 Comments

The State of Community Conservation in Namibia Annual Report 2020

Resource Africa Dec 10, 2020 0 Comments

Conservation & the Environment in Namibia Travel News Namibia 2020

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Namibia – farmers, free-roaming elephants and the spike in human elephant conflict

Resource Africa Dec 03, 2020 0 Comments

Conflict between humans and Namibia’s growing elephant population can be described as a “problem of success”, says Colin Nott, a Namibian regenerative agricultural consultant. The Namibian elephant population has trebled since 1990, which has resulted in a sharp spike in human-elephant conflict.Following a two-day workshop organised by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism in...

CBNRM Success Stories: A Namibian rural community’s historic choice of wildlife over cattle

Resource Africa Oct 20, 2020 0 Comments

CBNRM and a Namibian rural community’s historic choice of wildlife over cattle Published in The Chronicle, Zimbabwe on October 16, 2020, this article by Johannesburg-based journalist, Emmanuel Koro is a success story about CBNRM in action as Namibia's Anabeb community's choice to switch from cattle production to wildlife hunting has uplifted lives and restored natural resources of the...

CBNRM in southern Africa

Resource Africa Oct 14, 2020 0 Comments

CBNRM in southern Africa Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) has been implemented in several southern African with various degrees of success. While the form in which CBNRM is implemented also varies from country to country, three main components to the conceptualization of CBNRM in southern Africa can be identified (Jones and Murphree 2004): 1. In order to take management...