Andreia Pawel
June 21, 2024
Episode 7: A One-Million Acre Vision
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In a reflective quest aimed to align her emerging interests with a vocation, Andreia Pawel tent-camped in the Southern Namibian Savana for three years. Then, one day she unexpectedly received the chance to start a new one-million acre wildlife reserve: The Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area. As CEO of this fast-moving project, she looks back on falling in love with a vast landscape and its wildlife inhabitants, and the rewards of watching a newly protected place begin to thrive once again.
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Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area
Imagine a place in the far south of Namibia that is vast, wild, and magical – where one of earth’s greatest natural spectacles once unfolded. Journey with ORKCA's team to the remote Karoo where communities and wildlife face the advance of climate change and fragmented habitat, too restore and rewild Africa’s last great wilderness areas. ORKCA is a Namibian-registered non-profit management organization that funds and coordinates operations for the purpose of environmental conservation.
Investigating a little-known biodiversity hotspot
By Antje Burke
Did you know that Namibia and South Africa co-host the world's only arid biodiversity hotspot? Known as the Succulent Karoo Biodiversity Hot Spot, plant lovers most often associate it with the Northern Cape in South Africa. Few people, even among Namibians, realize that this hotspot extends into southern Namibia just north of the Orange River.
