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IRDNC 2025 Annual newsletter
In 2025, IRDNC’s community-led Human Wildlife Support Team operated almost daily, preventing wildlife poisonings, protecting communities, and supporting rangers. Despite all this efforts, communities still lost livestock worth the value of N$900,000. To improve these efforts, there is an urgent need for ranger support through allowances, safety equipment, and reliable vehicles.
Community Rangers Making Coexistence Possible in Kunene.
Imagine losing an entire year’s maize harvest in a single night. For many villages in Namibia’s Kunene region, this is a recurring reality. Elephants break through fences, destroy gardens, damage water infrastructure, and move silently through unlit villages. These encounters have resulted not only in loss of livelihoods but in injuries and, in some cases, loss of life.
September 2024

IRDNC Bi-annual Newsletter – Our Work in Action 

March 2024

Honeyguide to Namibia Second visit report – Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) poses a significant challenge for both conservation efforts and livelihoods. Wildlife often threatens the lives and livelihoods of people living in close proximity to it, leading to retaliatory actions that can harm rare endangered species. Elephants, in particular, can cause substantial damage to property as well as pose risks to human lives.

January 2024

In our latest community gathering, a spirit of understanding and partnership was obvious as we dug into the status of the conservancies’ efforts.

July 2023
Honeyguide’s scoping visit to Namibia – During our stay in Namibia, we had the opportunity to visit four conservancies: Omatendeka, Otjui, Ozondundu, and Ombuyokanguindi. One common issue we noticed acro across presence of elephants that come from different regions.
July 2023

South-south capacity building for human-elephant conflict management – Namibian community game guards and rangers’ educational visit to Tanzania

July 2023

IRDNC Newsletter – Community Conservation News

WWF ISSUE: Summer 2023

Sharing Space – Communities lead the way to a new era of landscape-scale conservation

May 20th, 2020 (Mongabay)

From crisis to solutions for communities and African conservation (commentary)

March 11th, 2016 (Namibia Economist)

Devil’s claw harvesting bolsters conservancies

March 8th, 2016 (Energy 100fm)

Trophy hunting ban will put conservancies at disadvantage

March 8th, 2016 (New Era)

Conservancies essential for rural communities

Nov. 25th, 2015 (Daily Mail)

Garth Owen-Smith is awarded the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa from the Tusk Trust in recognition of his lifetime contribution alongside Dr. Margaret Jacobsohn to the restoration and conservation of wildlife in Namibia.

Aug. 20th, 2015 (The Namibian)

Trophy hunting makes conservation possible

Aug. 7th, 2015 (TRAFFIC.org)

Angola, Namibia and Zambia vow to take action on illegal timber trade

July 21st, 2014 (Outside Magazine)

The last of the Desert Dwellers

Feb 14, 2014 (NBC News)

How Namibia is winning the war against rhino poachers

Oct. 31, 2013 (New York Times)

In Namibia, Conservation and Tourism Intersect

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