Human-lion conflict near Etosha National Park is driven by environmental, cultural, and economic factors, with lion killings peaking during the cold, dry season when prey is scarce and lions leave ...

WINDHOEK, NA / ACCESS Newswire / May 8, 2025 / Under the vast Namibian heavens, where the Etosha Pan stretches to touch the horizon and the stars are so close you feel you might catch them, a new ...

#1 Etosha National Park . Etosha National Park is a national park located in ... -driving tour of the park and be sure to look out for any giraffes gracefully roaming or taking a drink at one of the ...

Covering an area of 13,000 square miles, the Etosha pan covers around 25% of the total area of the park. The Etosha pan is essentially a salt pan which is dry in the wintertime. There are around 2500 ...

Etosha National Park, Namibia, captured April 29, 2022 Etosha National Park, Namibia, captured April 29, 2022. Image courtesy of Planet Labs PBC. Sundarbans, India/Bangladesh, captured April 19, 2024 ...

The Namibian Police's regional commander in Oshana, commissioner Lungameni Sackaria, says poaching activities have reduced drastically since he took over the 'Yesa Ongava' anti-poaching operation ...

A Vietnamese conglomerate has signed a tentative deal to explore the frontier Etosha-Okavango basin in southern Angola, although it is unclear if the area in question lies within a national park ...

In addition to 256 waterholes, some of which are seasonal and tend to dry up during summer, Nagarahole has other perennial sources like Lakshamantirtha river and Kabini backwaters, said Ms. Seema.

During the dry season, animals on the reserve depend on man-made waterholes. With so few sources of water, this gave researchers a reliable spot to set up camera traps and document animal activity.

The study showed that the African elephants (Loxodonta africana) died in May and June 2020 after drinking from water holes contaminated with these toxic algal blooms.

A new study has provided further evidence that the deaths of 350 African elephants in Botswana during 2020 were the result of drinking from water holes where toxic algae populations had exploded ...