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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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One of the greatest tragedies in Namibian conservation is playing out on the Kavango River east of Rundu in the Shamvura area where poachers operating from the Angolan side of the river have wiped out 75% of the local hippo population over the past year. Eyewitnesses report seeing Angolan individuals indiscriminately and in open daylight shooting at the hippo pod on the Namibian side of the river in what appears to be a thriving illegal trade in hippo meat across the river.