A Beacon of Hope
2025| Publication
In the heart of the lush Zambezi Region, the community of Nsundwa Emerging Conservancy and Fisheries Reserves has realised a long-held dream with the opening of their new community office, a space dedicated to collaboration, conservation, and sustainable development.
Thanks to the support of the ECOFISH project, this vibrant new facility offers a permanent home for local meetings, strategic planning, and knowledge exchange. Once limited to gathering under trees or in homesteads, community members now come together in a space built from locally sourced materials, enriched with cultural identity and shaped by the hands of the women in the community.
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Bees and Trees: Communities Protect Forests Through Beekeeping
2025| Publication
In Kongola, Zambezi, beekeeping is creating new opportunities while protecting forests. With training led by the Namibia Nature Foundation’s Forestry team and specialist Dr. Ortwin Aschenborn—supported by the Dream Fund/COmON Foundation and Bengo/Kaza Arise projects—local beekeepers are mastering honey harvesting, beeswax processing, and safe hive management.
Through the Kongola Honey Hub, they now bottle honey and produce candles and lotions, turning natural resources into sustainable livelihoods. The “Bees and Trees” project offers communities a vital alternative to forest-degrading activities, ensuring both economic resilience and ecosystem protection.
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Youth Cultivate Change Through a School Garden of Hope
2025| Publication
What began as a modest nursery has blossomed into a powerful space for learning, leadership, and community spirit. In a rural Namibian school, students are digging deep, literally and figuratively, to transform their agriculture project into a thriving garden filled with tomatoes, moringa, sunflowers, pigeon peas, and more.
Under the banner of a school feeding and agroecology initiative led by the Namibia Nature Foundation with support from SODI and BMZ, learners are not only growing crops but sowing seeds of environmental responsibility. With the help of dedicated teachers and community volunteers, the garden has become a space of shared stewardship, where food security, nutrition, and teamwork intersect.
From improving soil health with pigeon peas to adding moringa to their school meals, this initiative is a living classroom, nurturing resilience, commitment, and practical skills among Namibia’s youth.
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Youth Lead the Charge Against Namibia’s Silent Crisis: Plant Poaching
2025| Publication
Namibia’s rare and beautiful plant species are under threat, but a wave of youth action is rising to protect them. On 23 April 2025, the Namibian Youth Chamber of Environment hosted a powerful webinar uncovering the deepening crisis of plant poaching and trafficking across the country. Bringing together expert voices from conservation and law enforcement, the session not only shed light on the growing international demand for Namibia’s endemic flora but also highlighted how young people are stepping up as environmental guardians.
From sparking public awareness to championing stronger policy action, this initiative proves that the youth have a vital role to play in defending Namibia’s natural resources.
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Empowering Communities for a Greener Namibia
2025| Publication
In January 2025, the Namibia Nature Foundation has launched a new EU-funded project to strengthen community-based organisations in conservancies, enabling them to actively participate in Environmental Impact Assessments. Focused on capacity building and advocacy, the initiative empowers communities to better protect their environmental rights and resources.
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Farming with Hope
2025| Publication
Agroecology is a holistic approach to farming that combines traditional agricultural knowledge with ecological principles. It promotes sustainable and resilient food systems by focusing on practices like crop diversification, soil health management and water conservation. This approach is particularly important in areas where water scarcity and climate variability pose challenges to farming.
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From Drought to Abundance
2025| Publication
Phedinant Mate’s homestead is a shining example of showcasing how agroecological farming techniques can transform the harshest conditions into abundant, life-sustaining gardens. From the moment one steps into his yard and walks around his garden, one is met by dark, rich-looking, well-fed soil that is a result from the effective use of compost, mulching, biochar and a general focus on good soil management.
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Namibia Hosts First Agroforestry Conference: Paving the Way for Climate-Resilient Food Systems
2024 | Press
Namibia held its first Agroforestry Conference at the Windhoek Country Club, bringing together 120 stakeholders to explore the transformative potential of agroforestry systems in addressing climate change challenges facing Southern Africa and Namibia in particular.
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Youth Thrive with New Agricultural Initiative: Namibia Nature Foundation Boosts Food Security
2024 | Press
The Namibia Nature Foundation has recently launched an initiative aimed at improving the Namibian school feeding program through the introduction of agroforestry systems. This project, titled “Improving the Namibian School Feeding Program through the Introduction of Agroforestry Systems (Farm 2 Education)” is funded by the Engagement Global initiative of the German government, through the facilitation of Solidaritaetsdienst International (SODI).
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Namibia National Report on Wildlife Protection 2023
2023 | Publication
This comprehensive national report details Namibia’s 2023 efforts in combating wildlife crime, tracking trends in poaching, trafficking, and law enforcement. It offers in-depth statistics on key species like rhinos, pangolins, elephants, and endemic plants, while spotlighting the country’s legal challenges, landmark prosecutions, and inter-agency collaborations. Produced by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, the Namibian Police Force, and the Office of the Prosecutor General, the report reflects Namibia’s commitment to safeguarding its biodiversity through strengthened partnerships and evolving strategies.
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Interview with Mabuta Simataa
2023 | Publication
Mabuta Simataa is the first Namibian Masters’s student to study sharks and rays in Namibian waters. He has a BSc. in Fisheries Science from the University of Namibia and is now collecting data for his MSc research project with Namibia’s Rays and Sharks (NaRaS) project. Full article here
Food Security and Habitat Protection in KAZA – KAZA ARISE
2022 | Release
The Namibia Nature foundation (NNF) in cooperation with Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) is glad to announce the launching of the “Food security and habitat protection in KAZA” project in an effort to support communities in the KAZA area in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia. Read full article here
Income Generation Through Sustainable Devils’ Claw Harvesting: Official Project Hand-Over to the Community
2022 | Release
“Through this project intervention, a total of 139 beneficiaries reached on different levels at annual general meetings, participation in game guard training, financial training, and Devils Claw harvesting training. Furthermore, the project’s medium-term impact was to ensure high financial accountability and a transparent system being implemented and also assisting the conservancies with compliance in risk management.” – Mr. Nabot Mbeeli – Senior Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Coordinator. Read full article here
Handover Ceremony of Sustainable harvesting kits of Indigenous Natura Products (INPs)
2022 | Release
As part of the sub-project, the NNF together with the EU team held a handover ceremony of equipment to enable sustainable harvesting of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs). Two ceremonies were held, the first in the Maurus Nekaro on 28th November 2022, and the second in Kapinga Kamwalye Conservancies on 29th November 2022. Read full article
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Counting the Costs of Wildlife Crime
2022 | Release
In an important step in the fight against wildlife crime, the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) and Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) recently partnered on a project to better understand the current state of knowledge about the illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and the economics of IWT in southern Africa. This critical work was supported by USAID/Southern Africa through its VukaNow Activity. Read full article here
National school debate championships in celebration of world ocean day
2022 | Release
The Benguela Current Convention (BCC) together with the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF), and the Namibia School Debate Association (NSDA) organised a national school debate championships in celebration of the 2022 World Ocean Day at The Dome in Swakopmund, Namibia. The debate challenge saw learners from all over Namibia debate on relevant topics about Namibia’s maritime resources and associated industries. Read full article here