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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 .
Although Namibian agriculture, excluding fishing, contributed between 5% and 6% of Namibia's GDP from 2004 to 2009, a large percentage of the Namibian population depends on agricultural activities for livelihood, mostly in the subsistence sector. Animal products, live animals, and crop exports constituted roughly 10.7% of total Namibian exports.
Erindi Private Game Reserve, located in central Namibia between Okahandja and Omaruru, is a privately owned protected wildlife reserve. Covering 65,000 ha (160,000 acres) [1] or 75,000 ha (190,000 acres), [2] Erindi was originally a collection of three adjacent cattle farms that were converted into a wildlife reserve in the 1990s.
The economic impact of seals on the fish resources is controversial: While a government-initiated study found that seal colonies consume more fish than the entire fishing industry can catch, [21] animal protection society Seal Alert South Africa estimated less than 0.3% losses to commercial fisheries. [22]
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.
Quiver tree forest Dolerite rocks and quiver trees. The Quiver Tree Forest (Kokerboomwoud in Afrikaans) is a forest and tourist attraction of southern Namibia.It is located about 14 km north-east of Keetmanshoop on the road to Koës, on the Gariganus farm.
Botswana lies to the west, south and east, and Sangwali village to the north. It is Namibia's largest formally protected wetland area. [1] It is one of Namibia’s protected areas that benefits local communities surrounding parks. The unfenced park forms a trans-boundary link for wildlife migration between Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. [2]
Animals such as elephants, oryx, buffalo, Hartmann's zebra, springbok and lion, are once again providing biodiversity to the country of Namibia. The black rhino population has recovered to become one of the largest free-roaming herds, and the cheetah population has become the world's largest population at approximately 2,500 individuals. [ 21 ]