Sobbe Wildlife Corridor - A Critical Wildlife Corridor of the future

Text Ginger Mauney & Photographs NACSO / WWF in Namibia

“How many people have had a dangerous encounter with an elephant?” I asked. Of the fourteen Sobbe Conservancy members in the room, six people raised their hands. “How many of you know someone who has been killed by an elephant?” All 14 people raised their hands. Turns out, they all knew the same person, a Sobbe Conservancy member, who had met some friends at a local village. After sunset, on his way home, he ran into a herd of elephants. He shouted at them but he was alone, and in the darkness he was trampled to death. There must have been several frightened creatures in the bush that night. Elephant and human, but the one that weighs two thousand kilograms more will always win. This is a terrifying fact of life for rural Namibians. But when I asked if they are committed to living with elephants, every hand went up. This is why there is a future for wildlife in Namibia.

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