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Sep
09

As one of its mandates, the NAMPLACE project looks to strengthen protected area networks by promoting landscape management for biodiversity through co-management with local stakeholders. At landscape level, this means among other things, to improve local relationships in conservation by providing opportunities that empower communities. Environment conservation is tightly linked to socio-economic development and to maintain a balance, the two should be equally upheld.

NAMPLACE... + read more

Landscapes Newsletter March 2014
Apr
09

The newsletter contains interesting articles on:

  • landscape meetings
  • patrol camps
  • opening of Nkasa Rupara bridge
  • ten reasons to save the rhino
  • landscapes through the lens
  • national policy on protected areas' neighbours and resident communities
  • removal of fences in the Greater Sossusvlei Landscape
  • Waterberg fire management
  • conservancies institutional governance
  • water... + read more
Namib Sand Sea © Paul van Schalkwyk
Jul
04

The Namib Sand Sea was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on Friday 21st June 2013.

The Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog. It falls within the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape. Covering an area of over three million hectares and a buffer zone of 899,500 hectares, the site is composed of two dune systems, an ancient semi-consolidated one... + read more

Participants at the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape AGM at Sossusvlei Lodge on 16 March 2013
Apr
05
Namibia and the NamibRand Nature Reserve are at the forefront of conservation through the innovative and ground breaking work that is being done with regard to large landscape conservation. On 16 March 2013, landowners and custodians of properties that make up the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape signed a constitution that legalises this representative body and approved the management plan that will guide the work and outputs of this co-management association.
 
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