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Elephants are in a dramatic decline across Africa. So how do you save them? Should you simply shoot poachers on sight, as Kenya does? Or try and work with the communities where they live? Working as an environmental economist in the Namibian government, I got to test this at first hand. When we went out …
How liberalism meant 12,000 more Namibian elephants Read More »
While I was working in Namibia as a young aid worker, in the 1990s, the ordinary farmers of Namibia faced a problem. After having half of their land stolen under colonialism, the other half was rapidly being stolen by the post independence elite. Despite the fact that this government presented itself at the Marxist end …