Conservation groups have slammed the Namibian government’s decision to capture 22 wild elephants and export them to zoos in the United Arab Emirates. They contend the animals were taken from a fragile ...

Entering the winemaking business is not for the faint of heart. Doing so with no prior experience, on the edge of a desert where temperatures hit 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), might be ...

Imagine the U.S. government saying to the people living around Yellowstone, "You know what? All those wild animals in the park — the grizzlies, the bison, the wolves — they belong to you." This is ...

For a few cents and a piece of bread, Marieta van der Merwe persuaded a man on a dusty Namibian road to give her the thin vervet monkey he held by a rope around its neck. That was 28 years ago and the ...

In Namibia, the question of who owns the wildlife has often been fraught with difficulties. In 1967 – one year after the United Nations demanded South Africa leave Namibia – the ruling South African ...

WINDHOEK, March 10 (Reuters) - Namibia has seen a surge in incidents of human-wildlife conflicts involving elephants, buffaloes and other species, mainly in the north and northeastern parts of the ...

Chris Brown and Gail Thomson are with the Namibian Chamber of Environment. An estimated 1.4 million people in Namibia, nearly half of the national population, are considered to be in a state of food ...

It's dawn and 40 degrees out. The air tastes of dust. Elias Neftali is behind the wheel of a truck, driving us through a long valley encircled by red-rock mountains. As a farmhand in the northwest ...