Communal conservancies vital for community development

Contributed by NAMPA.

GOBABIS, 16 JAN (NAMPA) – Communal conservancies need to do more to attract the interest and trust of the communities they serve, a local tourism entrepreneur has said.
Namibia is one of a few countries in the world to specifically address habitat conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution.
Government in 1996 therefore introduced legislation, giving communities the power to create their own conservancies to benefit from wildlife on communal land and to work with private ...