Bio-diversity

Palmwag Concession is in Kunene Region and is home to 60 of the free roaming population of the black rhino in Namibia. Presently, the area is under lease to a private tour operator but is surrounded by a number of communal area conservancies. Major stakeholders in the management of the area are the conservancies, government, Save The Rhino Trust (SRT) and tourism operators.All these stakeholders lay claims on the area and its resources largely from dissenting perspectives. Most of the expectations are economically driven. This raises a concern about the biological motives of rhino conservnation. With SGP funding, SRT intends to undertake a multi-discplinery survey in the area collecting expectations, claims and plans that all stakeholders have, trigger dialogue among these stakeholders and then to assist these stakeholders to chart a future for this area that also takes into account biological needs of the rhino.

Namibia