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Namibian Wildlife Crimes article archive

This archive of published media articles about wildlife crime in Namibia aims to:

  • provide easy public access to published information and statistics
  • enable easy stakeholder access to articles
  • provide a comprehensive archive of wildlife crime reporting in Namibia

Public access to information is a vital component of ensuring community engagement in prevalent issues. Wildlife crime is one of the pressing environmental issues of our time.

Wildlife crime investigations are generally covert operations requiring utmost confidentiality to succeed. Investigations and prosecutions in complex cases may take months or even years to complete. For this reason, the information that can be released to the public without compromising cases is often limited. Nonetheless, the Namibian government strives to share as much information as possible with the public.

The Namibian media has welcomed this approach and regularly publishes statistics and feature articles on wildlife crime. These are entered into the database at regular intervals, creating a comprehensive archive of wildlife crime reporting in Namibia.

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Sunday, 9 November 2025
Cruise A 2025. Steenhuisen's lion bone gambit - firing the one minister who finally took on the wildlife trade.

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen's move suggests that, when forced to choose, the DA leadership is more worried about hunters and wildlife ranchers than about lions in cages and a country's integrity on the world stage. Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George and replace him with DA national spokesperson Willie Aucamp. On paper, it's just another reshuffle request in a fragile Government of National Unity.

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SA_2025_11_Steenhuisens lion bone gambit_firing the one minister who finally took on the wildlife trade_Daily Maverick.pdf 242.12 KB
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Thursday, 16 October 2025
Cruise A 2025. Is South Africa breaking ranks on the ivory trade in lead-up to CITES CoP20?.

Namibia's big ivory gambit: The flashpoint is Namibia's Proposal 13, which seeks CITES approval to sell more than 46 tonnes of government-owned raw ivory stockpiles for commercial purposes. Namibia argues the sale would be a one-off transaction with CITES Secretariat-verified trading partners, generating conservation revenue. The funds, they argue, would support conservation and rural communities. The secretariat, however, has raised serious concerns.

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SA_2025_10_Is South Africa breaking ranks on the ivory trade in lead_up to CITES CoP20_Daily Maverick.pdf 368.49 KB
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Sunday, 2 June 2024
Cruise A 2024. Elephant poaching in Africa is on the decline - but there's no room for complacency.
The wave of elephant poaching over the past two decades appears to have substantially subsided while prices of ivory have collapsed, but there remain serious threats to some elephant populations.
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SA_2024_06_Elephant poaching in Africa is on the decline_Daily Maverick.pdf 2.45 MB
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