Saving a desert elephant

By way of background, the desert elephants of Namibia’s Kunene Region are a distinctive population that have adapted to life in an extremely arid environment. They are one of only two populations of “desert” elephants in the world (the other is in Mali, North Africa) and have a number of notable physical and behavioral differences.…

World Rhino Day

IT was in the company of the late Paul van Schalkwyk, the Namibian filmmaker and businessman, that I first tracked a rhino. It was on a game farm close to Otjiwarongo, about two decades ago. I stood in awe when I first saw this beast from a 10-metre distance. I realised that I stood in…