Namibia represented at the Fourth ValuES Asia-Africa-Europe Regional Meeting in India

Jun 6, 2017 | News, Press Release

Each year, the ValuES project hosts a regional meeting for partner projects, counterparts, staff, and guest experts to delve deeper and foster exchange on some of the current global issues surrounding the integration of ecosystem services into policy. This year, the...

Nature conservation students of NUST and Germany learn how to value ecosystem services

May 16, 2017 | News, Press Release

A total of 18 students from the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST), as well as four exchange students from Germany, participated in the 2017-Autumn School, jointly hosted by NUST and the ResMob Project. This third school of its kind was held from 22...

8th EENN After-Work-Talk on “Valuing our natural resource base”

May 12, 2017 | EENN, News

Our guest speaker Dr Justine Braby presented on the importance of valuing and conserving our natural resources on which we depend on for our well-being. The presentation focused on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity country studies done internationally and...

Bertha Ijambo shares her experience as an Environmental Economics Trainee at the Namibia Nature Foundation

Apr 19, 2017 | News

I joined the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) as an Environmental Economist trainee in February 2017. NNF is a non-governmental organisation that promote sustainable development, biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. In addition, NNF contributes to programmes by...

Namibia’s spending on biodiversity conservation decreases

Feb 9, 2017 | News

The National Coordinator for the Resource Mobilization for Biodiversity Conservation (ResMob) Project in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Ferdinand Mwapopi, said biodiversity expenditure in Namibia was the highest in 2010, having received 2,4 per cent of the...

NNF is seeking Environmental Economics Trainees (Two Positions available)

Jan 30, 2017 | News

The Namibia Nature Foundation is looking for two Namibian Environmental Economics Trainees. The trainees will be part of the MET/GIZ TEEB Country Study on Protected Areas and Wildlife initiated by the ResMob project. The positions are scheduled to run from March to...