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Namibian Elephants in Etosha. Photo credit: Stephan Scholvin

Namibia to sell off wild elephants in controversial auction

Michael Schwartz 29 Jan 2021
Woman maintaining fish trap in waist deep water near Mashare, Namibia. Image by Mp3ief via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Alarm as exploratory drilling for oil begins in northern Namibia

Jim Tan 28 Dec 2020

Five years after the death of Cecil the Lion, trophy hunting debate rages on

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2020

Tribute to Garth Owen-Smith, African conservationist (commentary)

Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation 18 Apr 2020

Simba’s future depends on putting communities at the forefront of lion conservation (commentary)

Fred Nelson, John Kamanga 25 Jul 2019

‘Let us trade’: Debate over ivory sales rages ahead of CITES summit

Busani Bafana 11 Jul 2019

Community conservation in Namibia requires balance and understanding (commentary)

Gail Potgieter 29 May 2019

Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500

John Cannon 24 Apr 2019
Elephant in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

It pays, but does it stay? Hunting in Namibia’s community conservation system

John Grobler 26 Feb 2019

AI and public data identify fishing behavior to protect hungry seabirds

Marianne Messina 22 Feb 2019

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

Panama, Namibia plan to reveal fishing fleet data via online map

Basten Gokkon 19 Nov 2018

The bioethics of wildlife intervention (commentary)

Elvina Yau 8 Oct 2018

Automating drone-based wildlife surveys saves time and money, study finds

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Aug 2018

U.S. court ruling complicates Trump’s elephant and lion policy

Jeremy Hance 2 Jan 2018

Scientists call for cheetahs to be listed as Endangered

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2017

When it comes to rhino conservation, Asia and Africa can learn a lot from each other

Alex Dudley 21 Jun 2017

Namibia’s low cost, sustainable solution to seabird bycatch

William H. Funk 25 Apr 2017

Trophy hunters overstate contribution of big game hunting to African economies: Report

Mike Gaworecki 10 Feb 2017

Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins

John Cannon 10 Feb 2017

From ‘Silverbacks’ to Systems Leaders: Rethinking African conservation leadership (commentary)

Fred Nelson, Erin Myers Madeira 8 Sep 2016

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

2015 was the worst year on record for rhino poaching in Africa

Mike Gaworecki 21 Jan 2016

Running Wild with Cheetah Expert Laurie Marker

Nathan Hahn 31 Oct 2015
Giraffes at sunset. Photo by Francois Deacon.

Disappearing giraffes

Fred Bercovitch 13 Sep 2015

How black rhinos and local communities help each other in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 7 Jan 2015

Super cute, but tiny, elephant-relative discovered in Namibia

Jeremy Hance 30 Jun 2014

Zebras for the win! Africa’s longest land migration discovered

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 May 2014

Shoot to conserve: Corey Knowlton’s rhino hunt escalates the debate over trophy hunting and environmentalism

Analysis Jenny Isaacs 20 Feb 2014

Trophy hunters auction off life of Critically Endangered black rhino

Jeremy Hance 13 Jan 2014

Top nature pictures of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2013

600 vultures killed by elephant poachers in Namibia

Claire Salisbury 11 Sep 2013

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