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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.