Chinese citizens are responsible for much of the wildlife crime taking place in Namibia, inflicting immense damage to the country's environment, and undermining community based conservation, writes the Namibian Chamber of Environment in this Open Letter to China's Ambassador Xin Shunkang. China must act to stop its citizens' criminal activities, and invest in making good the damage caused.
… for its citizens' wildlife crimes in Africa Namibian Chamber of Environment | 6th January 2017 Activism Namibia China Africa Wildlife Trade Bushmeat … much of the wildlife crime taking place in Namibia, inflicting immense damage to the …
Once derided as backwards, the southern African San tribe’s love of nature is now bringing them real rewards, as well as offering an insight into how humans can survive with little or no water. Ruth Styles travelled to meet them in Namibia
… May 2012 Ethical Living Tribe Climate Change Namibia Wildlife Africa Travel Safari Green … water. Ruth Styles travelled to meet them in Namibia I’m standing in the middle of a thorn … people isn’t all hard times and bad luck. In Namibia, San land is protected and despite the …
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson’s stunning images highlight the luminous beauty of Africa’s elephants, says Ruth Styles, and show why ending the ivory trade is more important than ever
… 2011 Reviews Elephants Conservation Kenya Namibia Africa Poaching Ivory Books … us exactly what we stand to lose. Taking in Namibia’s vast roseate deserts and Kenya’s … the vulnerability, of the African elephant. Namibia, which endured years of poaching …
The global gold trade relies on 'tax optimisation' and dumping tons of hazardous waste.
… Instead, the Canadians acquired a smelter in Namibia, to which they ship the Chelopech … visited the town of Tzumeb in Namibia to get a firsthand view of the DPM … content, and the technology used in the Namibian smelter is not suited to process them …
Australian mining companies have a poor track record operating in Africa. Australian uranium company Paladin Energy has now put two of its mines into 'care-and-maintenance' and bankruptcy looms. But who cleans up the company's mess in Namibia and Malawi, asks JIM GREEN
… Nuclear Mining Langer Heinrich uranium mine, Namibia Australian mining companies have a … But who cleans up the company's mess in Namibia and Malawi, asks JIM GREEN Many … mine ‒ the Langer Heinrich mine (LHM) in Namibia ‒ will be put into …
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, authors of Walking Thunder, explain why the survival of the elephant is critical for our own future
… Elephants Conservation Africa Travel Kenya Namibia Tanzania Samburu Masaai Ndorobo … challenges facing tribes from Ethiopia to Namibia. Their second book, Walking Thunder: … MORE... GREEN LIVING The Really Wild Show: Namibia's pioneering conservancies From the …
The world burns. But oil exploration continues. It could cost the earth. And local communities are already paying the price.
… its oil exploration in the Kavango region of Namibian and Botswana, in a project that … for oil on the first of three wells in Namibia’s Kavango Basin - upstream from … global heating below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Namibian climate group, Fridays for Future …
Cape gannet chicks are facing starvation as a result of overfishing of sardines and anchovies off the coast of southern Africa, as well as an increase in predation by other species affected by the food shortage
… Gannet Bird Pelican Biologist Ralf Mullers Namibia South Africa 1960 Fish Overfishing … Mullers spent four six-month stints on the Namibian island of Ichaboe and the South … of the bird’s six breeding colonies are in Namibia, half in South Africa. Namibian …
The trade ban on rhino horn is not working, writes Keith Somerville. But non-lethally and sustainably harvested rhino horn can earn income to encourage breeders, pay rangers and anti-poaching teams, provide surveillance and supply wider benefits that will gain the support of people around parks, reserves and ranches.
… of white rhino about 99% are found in Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and South … . Both species are also found in Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Small black … by government and the rest by private owners. Namibia and Zimbabwe also have large stocks …
The African Wildlife Foundation has uncovered the figures behind the shocking numbers of 'trophy hunters' and the sanctioned trade in exporting dead and living animals out of the continent, reports LAURA BRIGGS
… South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Cameroon and Gabon all … Macaques, Fennec Fox, and Olive Baboon. Namibia, Thailand and China all come high in …
African leaders could hold the key to protecting the world’s wildlife and wild places.
… world’s wildlife and wild places. Bold action Namibia and Botswana have already protected 30 … natural resource management in Namibia now covers more than 166,000 km2, …
Environmentalist, democracy campaigner and Nobel laureate; Wangari Maathai led an extraordinary life but it's her overwhelming kindness and charm that I’ll always remember, says Ruth Styles
… agenda GREEN LIVING The Really Wild Show: Namibia's pioneering conservancies From the … to the teeming game reserves of Damaraland, Namibia is home to some of the world’s most …
Despite increased poaching threats, a difficult political situation, drought and climate change, Goldman Prize Winner Raoul du Toit has pioneered a new approach in community stakeholding to save the black rhino
… MORE... GREEN LIVING The Really Wild Show: Namibia's pioneering conservancies From the … to the teeming game reserves of Damaraland, Namibia is home to some of the world’s most …
Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting reveals that Britain is one of a ‘Deadly Dozen’ top nations killing the most lions on South Africa’s ‘canned hunting’ estates.
… Farming Hunting Change Makers lion_waiting_in_namibia.jpg Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting …
In Zambia’s newest national park live more than 200 sable antelope. Coralled in conditions that are far from ideal, the animals have languished there for almost three years; the victims of bureaucracy, unscrupulous operators and a disregard for conservation. Ian Michler reports
… decline GREEN LIVING The Really Wild Show: Namibia's pioneering conservancies From the … to the teeming game reserves of Damaraland, Namibia is home to some of the world’s most …
Poaching of elephants and rhinos for their ivory tusks and horn is fast pushing these beautiful animals to extinction, writes Anneka Svenska. Decisive action is needed at the 17th CITES congress in South Africa to ban all international trade in these products, matched by equally strict laws at a national level.
… being China, USA and Japan. Countries such as Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa appeal …
Giraffe numbers have fallen from 140,000 in 16 years to just 80,000, writes Matt Hayward, and sub-species in East and West Africa are close to extinction. However trophy hunting has led to big population increases in private game reserves in southern Africa. To secure the giraffes' future, beware of simplistic narratives.
… that 23,000 giraffes occupy such lands in Namibia . Ironically, many of those ranches …
African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive 'plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have developed over countless generations.
… Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra …
Global brands, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Vodafone offer African township residents a ‘lick of paint’ in exchange for turning their homes into advertisements
… the Coca-Cola arm responsible for Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and …
From the creation of the very first national parks and game reserves, 'conservation' has always been about repressing and expropriating indigenous tribes, Survival International director Stephen Corry told Alice Bayer. And despite all the evidence that indigenous peoples are the best wildlife managers, old attitudes die hard ...
… "trophy hunting is a fundamental pillar of Namibia's conservation approach and …