A baby elephant covered in mud in the Namib Desert, Namibia. Elephants use mud as a natural sunscreen to protect their skin from harmful ultraviolet light.

Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in ...

PALMWAY, Namibia – Fresh dung. Tracks in the sand of the Namib Desert. The black rhinoceros can’t be far away. Wildlife rangers Stefanus Ganuseb, 42, and Fritz Hoeb, 45, are patrolling on foot ...

According to Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA), a conservation organization in Namibia, an estimated 62 desert dwelling elephants live in the dried up river beds of Namibia’s Southern Kunene ...

Two programmes examining life in extreme environments. Wednesdays 26 June and 3 July 2002, 9.00-9.30pm: Programme 2: Sea of Sand: Namib desert: Sue Armstrong travels to the Namib desert to ...

This ghost town in the Namib Desert lures visitors with its haunting blend of abandoned opulence and eerie desert allure. By Aditi Rane, Reporter. 08:01, Sun, Nov 24, 2024. Link copied Bookmark.

WINDHOEK, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Desert elephants from the arid lands of Kunene Region in northern Namibia are battling for their survival as a combination of human-caused mortality, which accounts ...

It’s just a fraction of the 2,500 to 3,500 that lived in the Namib region in the 18th century. Hunting, poaching, growing human populations and political conflict all contributed to their decline.