Namibia Archive
Weather Grounds Drones
Predictions about African security linked to global warming have proved frighteningly correct. Does weather trump drones? As the stubborn, not-too bright bully on the block, America has shifted to accepting global warming as human caused, but it took a few Katrinas and Sandys to tip the balance. And experts still spend inordinate amounts of time [...]
Lion in the Dune?
Posted by jimheck in Big Game, Economy, Environment, Namibia, Planning Travel on October 13, 2011
NPR’s Namibia stories this week distort the overall complexities of human-animal conflicts in Africa as whole. The reporting by Christopher Joyce was an admirable portrayal of one very unusual country’s struggle with wildlife, but when he generalized he was quite wrong. I hope you listened to the two reports, one on Monday and the other [...]