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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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The United States is the engine driving the global trophy hunting industry, and wealthy Americans are its primary consumers. According to an IFAW analysis of CITES trade data, the US accounts for 71 percent of global trophy import demand - about 15 times that of the next-highest importing nation. As we've documented at World Animal Protection, in 2015, more than 50 percent of all canned-hunted lions in South Africa were killed by Americans. Between 2005 and 2014, over 1.26 million wildlife trophies were imported to the US - roughly 126,000 animals per year. Cecil the Lion?