“The trackers will tell us where to go, and we follow on foot,” says desert guide, Bons. “We want the rhinos to experience the least human disturbance. We don’t want them used to jeeps — you can ...

Conservation and wildlife law experts call for immediate halt to capture and export of wild elephants from vulnerable desert-adapted population. Washington, DC—Conservationists and wildlife trade ...

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...

The entire west coast of Namibia in Southern Africa is bounded by the Namib Desert, which means “vast place” in the Nama language. Exploring this remote region takes you to red sand dunes, clay pans, ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot - the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable-looking ...

If anywhere in our over-explored world can still be called a wilderness, it’s the Skeleton Coast in northwest Namibia. The gates that mark the end of the public road at its southern boundary don’t ...