Large scale conservation project for protection and restoration of nature and wildlife.
One of Africa’s last great wilderness areas, Namibia’s desert landscape is a place of extraordinary beauty – of large grass plains, red sand dunes and 120m year-old granite inselbergs. It now also offers an unprecedented philanthropic investment opportunity. At low cost relative to other conservation land opportunities, the ProNamib Nature Reserve project will create a new reserve to safeguard an irreplaceable ecosystem and re-wild land that has suffered from periods of drought and the harsh landscape has made it difficult for farmers to make a living.
The new reserve also reinforces a critical initiative of the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape Association – to open up the Namib Desert all the way to the Great Escarpment, creating a Fence-Free Namib. Funded in part with support from The Nature Conservancy, the Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape Association is committed to addressing imminent threats to habitat and species loss at a landscape level.
The ProNamib Trust
The ProNamib Trust was established in March 2020 in order to facilitate the acquisition of land for conservation and to raise funds for the Environment.