The Namib Desert, located along the Atlantic Coast of southern Africa, is one of the world's oldest deserts. This article explores the unique flora and fauna found there—with particular emphasis on bat communities—and summarizes a recent study on local attitudes around human-wildlife conflict and coexistence. An endemism hotspot, the Namib is home to diverse communities, from fog-collecting tenebrionid beetles and geckos on the southern sand dunes to desert-dwelling megaherbivores and some of the world's oldest plants in the gravel plains and ephemeral river channels of the north. It also harbors many bats. While bat diversity typically declines with reductions in precipitation, the Namib's antiquity and topographic and vegetative diversity allow it to support more species then otherwise predicted, with at least 19 species in 7 families of bats captured or detected during 2016–17 study in the northern Namib Desert reviewed here. The article concludes with a review of challenges to and potential solutions for general biodiversity conservation and human-wildlife coexistence. Semi-structured interviews of local pastoralists revealed frequent conflicts with large carnivores, but broad support for management of predator populations rather than the complete removal of species like lions from the region.