Wildlife Projects
Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA)
Elephant Human Relations Aid is a Namibian registered NGO, which runs an elephant conservation and volunteer project. EHRA aims to find long-term sustainable solutions to the ever-growing problem of facilitating the peaceful co-habitation between the subsistence farmers, community members and the desert adapted elephants. With the escalation of tourism as an increasing potential earner of revenue for these communities, the value of elephants and other wildlife in communal areas has increased dramatically. EHRA believes that through assisting these communities by constructing protective structures around water points (with the help of the volunteer project members) educating community members about elephant behaviour, creating alternative drinking points for the elephants and promoting tourism in the affected areas, we can assist in alleviating the current pressure facing communal farmers. Thereby helping to promote the future of the desert dwelling elephant in harmony with the continuous positive development of the conservancies and their ideals. Our guests can help by doing volunteer work with the EHRA, helping them build watering places with secured walls around them, or alternatively a group can spent two nights in the…
read full articleAFRICAT FOUNDATION – Otjiwarongo
Namibia is a large country with an area of 824 300 km² (321 500 sq.miles) and a population of only 1.9 million people. All regions of the country still have wildlife, including carnivores, although population numbers are often unknown and vary dramatically. Namibia is home to approximately 25% of the world’s cheetah population of which 90% live on farmland. It is the inevitable conflict with humans on farmland that created the demand for the establishment of the AfriCat Foundation. The AfriCat Foundation was founded in 1991 and officially registered as a non-profit organisation in August 1993. AfriCat has grown significantly since then and what started out primarily as an animal welfare organisation has over the years, identified the need to include a focus on education and research as being essential to their mission – the long-term conservation of large carnivores in Namibia. The AfriCat Foundation concentrates on four objectives: To create awareness and promote the tolerance of large carnivores among the farming community by assisting farmers in effective farm management techniques, including targeting problem predators as opposed to indiscriminate removal….
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