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Article: On Namibia's conservation trail: with its national parks packed with 'Big Five' game and its impressive sand dunes, Namibia is a classic adventure-safari destination. But for all the gloss of the travel brochures, there are some serious wildlife conservation issue at stake.(NAMIBIA)
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- September 1, 2006
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"Welcome to Namibia," shouts Wayne, one of the AfriCat Foundation guides sent to meet me at Windhoek's airport. As we drive through torrential rain he bellows over his shoulder: "It's not normally like this." It's a phrase I will come to hear often over the next few weeks.
I've come to Namibia at a very wet time. While parts of eastern Africa are suffering the worst drought for more than a decade, Namibia is green and lush--within an hour of my arrival, a deluge produces more than a tenth of the country's annual average rainfall (450 millimetres). It's the first time in 40 years that all of the country's reservoirs have been full: the landscape is verdant and ...