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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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of national parks in Namibia, ... This page was last edited on 5 April 2022, ...
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] It is 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) in length, and with Namib-Naukluft Park it covers an area of 107,540 square kilometres ...
Tourism in Namibia is a major industry, contributing N$7.2 billion ( equal to US$ 390 million ) to the country's gross domestic product. Annually, over one million travelers visit Namibia , with roughly one in three coming from South Africa , then Germany and finally the United Kingdom , Italy and France .
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.