Category: Namibia
Articles and research papers around CBNRM, Natural Resource Management, rural livelihoods, conservation and community rights, case studies, land tenure, related topics in Namibia.
Podcast: Into the Wild – 3 Namibians discuss Trophy Hunting
Podcast: Into the Wild - 3 Namibians discuss Trophy Hunting African peoples have hunted animals for hundreds of years and this is highly regulated. This episode of Into The Wild podcast features three Namibians, among them Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organisations (NACSO) director Maxi Louis whose organisation supports communities living in conservancies, John Mwilima, a management...
Competing conservation ideologies: Troubled times for reporting on Namibian wildlife
By Liz Rihoy and Malan Lindeque • Op-ed The Daily Maverick 14 April 2019 Two competing ideological narratives have emerged in African wildlife conservation. The one is based on so- called ‘compassionate conservation’, aligned with the mostly Western animal rights movement, the other based on the human rights of the owners of the wildlife, the local people who live with wild animals. In...