Posted at WWF web-site on 25 October 2013

WWF Community Game Guard badge, Kunene Province, Namibia
© John E. Newby / WWF Canon

Global conservation organization WWF has recognized Namibia for its outstanding conservation achievements.

The Namibian President, His Excellency Hifikepunye Pohamba, is being presented today with a WWF Gift to the Earth Award – the second the country has received – by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former President of WWF International. The ceremony is taking place in the Namibian capital Windhoek on the occasion of the Adventure Travel World Summit.

Over the past two decades, the people and government of Namibia in South-West Africa have developed a communal conservancy movement, whereby local communities are fully involved in the ownership and management of their natural resources and wildlife – for the benefit of people and nature alike. Read more here...