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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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High Court Judge Andree-Jeanne Tötemeyer has granted relief to conservancies in the Kunene Region, halting mining activities carried out by one Timoteus Mashuna in the Sorris Sorris conservation area, which hosts the endangered black rhino species. The judge said that only about 3,500 remain globally, with Namibia holding close to one-third of the global population. The western Kunene rhinos are the largest population of free-roaming black rhinos anywhere in the world and are classified as a Key-1 population by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.