Products in development
Chobe Lions Product
This product is being developed in support of a unique cross-border conservation effort that began by young guides on the Botswana and Namibia sides of the Chobe River, alerting one another to lion movements across the river. The goal was two-fold – to ensure that tourists saw lions in this spectacular natural landscape, and to provide an early warning system to farmers living on or near the banks of the river. To date, funds have been secured for a Rapid Response Team for the Namibian conservancies along the Chobe River opposite the Chobe National Park (Salambala, Nakabolelwa, Kabulabula, and Kasika). The team will focus on livestock protection, coexistence with predators, and monitoring of lion movements. Once data comes in, it will be used to design the Wildlife Credits product.
African Wild Dog Product
This product is being designed to increase tolerance amongst subsistence farms and help conserve African Wild Dogs, Namibia’s most endangered large carnivore and with less than 350 individuals remaining, they are listed as critically endangered. In collaboration with the Kalahari African Wild Dog Conservation Project, Namibia Nature Foundation, and the CCFN, the Wildlife Credits product design will focus on access to range by African Wild Dogs (AWDs). This will be monitored through camera trap data and AI-driven analysis, enabling the identification and recording of individual adults and juveniles within designated areas. The approach aims to quantify AWD presence and movement patterns, and breeding success.
Kunene Elephants Product
This product is focused on the communal conservancies in Namibia’s northwest where the ephemeral riverbeds of the Ugab, Huab, Hoarusib, Hoanib, and Uniab incise the landscape. These riverbeds and their surroundings are also home to Namibia’s iconic desert-dwelling elephant population. A population of approximately 150 elephants. The Kunene Elephants Wildlife Credits product is being designed with the goals of securing this important elephant population while at the same time increasing tolerance amongst rural farming communities in conservancies to elephants who compete for water resources and are a threat to livelihoods (ie. crops) and in rare cases, human life.
