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Travel News Namibia is a high-quality Namibian travel and lifestyle magazine tasked with promoting Namibia to the world. With riveting stories, first-hand encounters and magnificent photographs showcasing tourism, travel, nature, adventure and conservation, TNN is the ultimate and most comprehensive guide to exploring Namibia.

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Soul-searching in forgotten places

Bush TELEGRAPH • News from the tourism industry

Along the eastern edge of The Great White Place

There’s something about Gross Barmen

COMBINING TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO SAVE A SPECIES

Fewer blue cranes than black rhino

Three decades of cheetah conservation • When American scientist Dr Laurie Marker launched the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in 1990, she had no idea where this new adventure would take her. A zoologist from California, she learned about threats to a declining wild population while conducting in situ research in Africa in the late 1970s and through the 1980s. Dr Marker routinely travelled to Namibia and other cheetah-range countries from her positions with Wildlife Safari and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo to study the habits of the world’s fastest feline. But it’s what she learned about human behaviour that shocked her. Habitat loss, loss of prey, and conflict with livestock and game farmers put cheetahs on the fast track to extinction. Livestock and game farmers were shooting, trapping and removing hundreds of cheetahs each year – more because of perceived threats than actual predation. She realised if no one would soon intervene, the cheetah might be lost forever.

Photography of the Year Awards • Launched toward the end of 2021, the Travel News Namibia Photography of the Year Awards encouraged our readership and online following to submit their ultimate Namibian photograph in order to win incredible prizes from our partners. Submissions fell into three categories – Wildlife, Landscapes and People & Cultures – with prizes sponsored by Ongava, Ondili Lodges & Activities and FlyNamibia respectively. An influx of submissions from both local and international photographers proved a difficult task for our judging panel, comprised of regular contributors to our publications and the sponsors themselves. Here are the finalists and winners in each category with their breathtaking captures of this land of wild wonders, endless horizons and enigmatic inhabitants.

Hallowed Halls of the Namibia Craft Centre

FINDING TREASURE in the middle of nowhere • In the days when we still had our most treasured experiences printed on glossy postcard-size photos, a friend gave me some to remind me of a wondrous experience that I had missed in my travels criss-crossing the country. As you probably know by now, Namibia is a dry country, famous for its deserts and dramatic geographic rock formations, mountains and canyons. Water is a special treat along the 1700-km-long coastline, the perennial rivers on the southern and northern borders and the few big man-made inland dams. Looking at the photos, I squinted to figure out where the captured body of water could be. Not the ocean, because there was a fine line of greyish vegetation visible at the top. The birds were plentiful, but I could not identify a seagull or a cormorant. Definitely not the ocean. In fact, I needed a lot of imagination to fill in the suggestion of expanse inevitably lost with the limitations of a small-format camera. Those photographs with their subtle pastel colours and what were obviously thousands of birds triggered my imagination. For years I had a little flip frame on my desk hosting them, reminding me to go there when the time was ripe.

Meet the Mobola-Plum • In this series we explore the beauty of trees with our beloved local nature-enthusiasts and authors, Helga and Pompie Burger. Each with a unique voice and...