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As even the most cursory googler will discover almost instantly, “facts” and opinions concerning Namibia’s seal population and human “management” thereof are widely/wildly divergent/contested.
Suffice for now that all of Namibia’s seals are Cape Fur Seals, and that an enormous number (and major proportion of the global population) of them live and die on Namibia’s coast.
Comments closed(Yale-based historian Timothy Snyder is best known as the author of Blood Lands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a book which profoundly enriched/jolted not a few readers’ understanding of “The Holocaust”, this reader’s included)
What European history really shows, and quite powerfully, is that in order to become, quote unquote, a ‘normal’ European country, you have to become post-imperial, [meaning] you have to lose your wars.
Snyder’s words, quoted immediately above and below, are from an article published in today’s Australian edition of The Guardian.
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Péringuey’s Adder is one of many names for Bitis peringueyi; the most descriptive are “Namib desert sidewinding adder” and “dwarf sand adder”.
This one was variously speeding/attacking/burrowing-hiding on or near the surface of one of the Namib’s westernmost dunes, just in from the Atlantic Ocean…and almost literally next door to Swakopmund’s easternmost houses.
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This mother and calf are black rhinos – the smaller of Africa’s two rhino species
They still “enjoy” a critically endangered conservation status, but numbers have rebounded in recent years.
Circa one third of them live in Namibia.
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 9.30 pm on 05 November 2022 in Etosha National Park.
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On Thursday – the second day of our current “expedition” to Namibia – my beloved and I had our lifetimes’ most exciting (to date) close-range encounter with a wild carnivore.
The featured image’s leopard is coming back down from the tree in which she had just stashed “the kill” she had made that afternoon.
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