Large Landscape Conservation

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Participants at the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape AGM at Sossusvlei Lodge on 16 March 2013
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.
 
The eyes of the international conservation community are on us now to see if we can implement our vision to manage the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape collaboratively for enhanced landscape and biodiversity conservation, and socio-economic development, for the sustained benefit of the people within the Landscape and the Region.
 
This initiative, which had already started in 2007 between NamibRand and some of our neighbours, including the Kulala Wilderness Reserve, Sossusvlei Lodge and the Namib Desert Lodge, is the first time that a public-private partnership concentrating on large landscape conservation has been formalised in Namibia. In addition to this we know of very few examples in the world where conservation initiatives on this scale have been successfully attempted. The area now under collaborative management extends to almost one million hectares!
 
This partnership does not mean that individual landowners will be told how and when to do what on their own land; rather it focuses on the things we can do better as a group. Matters such as landscape-wide wildlife monitoring, the opening of fences to re-enable historic wildlife migrations, joint water management plans, fire and security issues, marketing and social issues can all be addressed.
 
We are excited at the prospect of working with our neighbours in making this project a success and will report to you on a regular basis on the progress that is being achieved.