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It operates camps and mobile safaris across seven countries: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Known for its ongoing conservation work, the company is helping to conserve some 33 species on the IUCN Red List [ 5 ] and lists some 2.5 million hectares as being under protection.
The Naankuse Foundation Wildlife Sanctuary (Juǀʼhoan: Nǀaʼankusê) is a wildlife sanctuary in central Namibia, situated c. 42 kilometres (26 mi) outside Windhoek. Besides the sanctuary the establishment also runs a carnivore conservation research programme, the Clever Cubs pre-primary school, and a clinic for the San people.
Tippi Degré was born in Windhoek, Namibia, [2] to wildlife photographer-filmmaker parents and was raised in the bush for the first ten years of her life in Southern Africa. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She was named after the American actress Tippi Hedren as well as friend of her parents Gert Benjamin Jordaan, a guide they knew in Namibia at the time of Tippi ...
This is a list of national parks in Namibia, ... the National Botanic Garden in Windhoek [1] ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct;
The second area added was a 1,600-kilometre (1,000 mi) strip of the Atlantic Ocean, making the Namib-Naukluft Park Namibia's first marine reserve. [ 3 ] The park's present boundaries were established in 1986 when the government was given control over parts of the Sperrgebiet , an area restricted for diamond mining.
Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa. [1] It was proclaimed a game reserve in March 1907 in Ordinance 88 by the Governor of German South West Africa, Friedrich von Lindequist.
It remained under direct de facto control of the South African government in Pretoria until 1980, when its administration was transferred to South West Africa's administration in Windhoek. [ 8 ] In the late 20th century, the Caprivi Strip attracted attention when Namibia and Botswana took a long-standing dispute over its southern boundary to ...
Twyfelfontein (Afrikaans: uncertain spring), officially known as ǀUi-ǁAis (Damara/Nama: jumping waterhole), is a site of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. It consists of a spring in a valley flanked by the slopes of a sandstone table mountain that receives very little rainfall and has a wide range of ...