Namibia has been granted 19 million euros from the German government through KfW Development Bank as a financial contribution toward community conservation in the Zambezi Region. Eight million euros will be allocated to human-wildlife conflict mitigation, while 11 million euros are earmarked for mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia’s Communal Conservancies, the country’s Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta said during the launch of the community livelihood development and human-wildlife mitigation project in the Zambezi Region. According to Shifeta, the increase in the numbers of Namibia’s wildlife, especially iconic species such as elephants, crocodiles, lions, hippos and rhinos, is a success story for the southern African country but leads to increasing HWC incidents.
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