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About hopebuilding

I have always been interested in what works in terms of locally-led sustainable development, and I have seen it in action in different parts of the world. I believe that if people can read or see what others have done elsewhere, it will inspire them to try something similar for themselves. I hope you enjoy the 400+ stories.

The community saving its black rhinos

There is a lovely story in the Christian Science Monitor about Palmwag, a small town in Namibia that hasn’t lost a single one of its rhinos to poachers in three years. 

Namibia’s Kunene Region is a vast, rugged, and remote wilderness, home to a unique population of rhinos – the desert-adapted South-western black rhino (Diceros bicornis bicornis), which have roamed the arid landscape for millennia. They are incredibly tough, able to go several days without drinking, and are one of the few animals that can feed on the highly toxic Damara milk-bush (Euphorbia damarana).

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