African Wildlife & Environment Issue 84 2023

FAUNA, FLORA & WILDLIFE

In April this year Sobbe Conservancy became the first community-based organisation in Namibia to win a GOSCAR – a Grassroots Owen-Smith Community Conservation Award – worth R100,000. Dr Margaret Jacobsohn is a renowned, award winning anthropologist, conservationist- and author based in Namibia. With her partner, the late Garth Owen-Smith, she was co-founder of the IRDNC (Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation), an NGO pioneering community conservation in Kunene Province. She is Chair of the GOSCARs and a Trustee of Conservancy Safaris Namibia Dr M Jacobsohn: mjacobsohn@iway.na Thanks To Dr Margaret Jacobsohn for her contribution, to John Wesson for his images and Dr Lise Hanssen for camera trap photos from the Sobbe Conservancy. Kwando Carnivore Project/Kwando Carnivores Trust PO Box 8027, Kongola Zambezi Region, Namibia +264 811294060 info@kwandocarnivores.org lise@kwandocarnivores.org. Facebook.com/kwandocarnivoreproject

Dr John Ledger, Consulting Editor African Wildlife & Environment.

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