Removing Fences: Innovative Partnerships With Private Landholders In Namibia Expand Habitat And Conserve Biodiversity Through Landscape-Level Protection
By Colleen McNally-Murphy / 6 November, 2014 - 09:13
The ongoing UNDP supported, GEF financed project “Namibia Protected Landscape Conservation Areas Initiative (NAM-PLACE)” establishes partnerships between national parks and private landholders, communal conservancies, and forests adjacent to the parks in an innovative approach to landscape-level habitat protection. These partnerships allow for the removal of fences, which increases territory accessible by wildlife and decreases pressure on the park habitats.