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  2. Communal wildlife conservancies in Namibia - Wikipedia

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    The main goal of this project is to promote sustainable natural resource management by giving local communities rights to wildlife management and tourism. [3] In 1996, the Government of Namibia introduced legislation giving communities the power to create their own conservancies.

  3. Protected areas of Namibia - Wikipedia

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    Facilities in the national parks are operated by Namibia Wildlife Resorts. [3] Over 19% of Namibia is protected, an area of some 130,000 square kilometres. [4] However, the Ministry of Environment & Tourism auctions limited hunting rights within its protected areas. [4] The Namibia Nature Foundation, an NGO, was established in 1987 to raise and ...

  4. List of national parks of Namibia - Wikipedia

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  5. Wildlife of Namibia - Wikipedia

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    Namibia's parks and reserves range from the open bush of the centre and the north where wildlife is relatively plentiful, to the barren and inhospitable coastal strip with its huge sand dunes. The three main tourist attractions for wildlife in Namibia are Etosha National Park, Waterberg National Park and Cape Cross Seal Reserve.

  6. Ministry of Environment and Tourism (Namibia) - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) is a government ministry of Namibia, with headquarters in Windhoek. [1] It was created at Namibian independence in 1990 as Ministry of Wildlife, Conservation and Tourism. [2] The first Namibian environment and tourism minister was Niko Bessinger, [3] the current minister is Pohamba ...

  7. Tourism in Namibia - Wikipedia

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    Tourism in Namibia also has had a positive impact on resource conservation and rural development. Some 50 communal conservancies have been established across the country, covering 11.8 million hectares of land and resulting in enhanced land management [ 1 ] while providing tens of thousands of rural Namibians with much-needed income.

  8. Dorob National Park - Wikipedia

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    Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Namibia The Dorob National Park ("dry land") [ 1 ] is a protected area in the Erongo region, along the central Namibian coast, gazetted as a national park under the Nature Conservation Ordinance No.4 of 1975 on 1 December 2010. [ 2 ]

  9. Mudumu National Park - Wikipedia

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    Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe have agreed to manage trans-boundary conservation through the Kavango–Zambezi Trans-frontier Conservation Area (KaZa TFCA). Mudumu is situated in the centre of the Kaza TFCA and forms a corridor for elephant, buffalo, roan and sable antelope movement from Botswana into Angola and Zambia.