The Pigeon Express
For the first time in 70 years, India’s forests will be home to cheetahs. Eight of them are set to arrive in August from Namibia, home to one of the world’s largest populations of the wild cat. Their return comes decades after India’s indigenous population was declared officially extinct in 1952. The world’s fastest land […]
Former Polish athlete Marcin Urbas has demanded that Namibian sprinter Christine Mboma, 18, go through a gender test because he cannot believe someone who can run her times is “definitely a woman.” Mboma won silver at the 200-meter sprint in Tokyo on Monday. She was narrowly beaten to the gold medal by Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah, […]
Namibia has put about 170 high valued wild elephants for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, the nation’s environmental ministry said on Wednesday. Advertisements carried by state-owned New Era said an increase in incidents of human-elephant conflict motivated the sale of the large mammal that is at risk of extinction due […]
A fire was reported in Namibia’s Omusati Region after an elederly woman burned down her field while trying to kill a mouse. The first incident at Ogongo left about a hectare of land in ashes. 88-year-old Ilona Nicodemus tried to burn grass after she saw a mouse. The incident was reported on Sunday. “According to […]
The sale of elephant dung as a so-called cure for coronavirus has skyrocketed in Namibia despite lack of scientific research or approval. People in Namibia use elephant dung as traditional medicine, a rumor that it now cures coronavirus has resulted in a high demand. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Romeo […]
A baby African elephant whose birth was live-streamed by a safari park in Mexico has been named Zoom after the video chat app made popular by the coronavirus pandemic. The calf is the sixth born at the park in Puebla, southeast of the capital, to a herd of elephants rescued eight years ago in Namibia, […]
More than 400 buffaloes drowned after being chased by lions into a river. The unfamiliar event occurred in Chobe River, northern Bostwana near the border with Namibia this week. Early investigations by authorities suggest that a large buffalo herd was grazing in Namibia. They stampeded into the Chobe River after a pride of lions chased […]