Namibia: Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta At the National Stakeholders’ Forum On Wildlife Protection and Law Enforcement

Since controlling a surge in poaching in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Namibia has experienced comparatively low levels of the illegal killing of wildlife, particularly of rhinos and elephants.

The changes in protected areas and wildlife management policies that followed independence, and the rapid growth of the community-based natural resource management and the conservancy and community forest programme in particular have no doubt contributed to the upward population trends shown by most…