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Kai-Uwe Denker – NAPHA President 2016

by Kai-Uwe Denker I n the early 1970s individuals and institutions that truly cared for conservation had to realize that a ban on hunting - which

Kai-Uwe Denker – NAPHA President 2015

In the age of electronic media and daily information flows spanning the world, an association like NAPHA has to deal with additional challenges. Kai-Uwe Denker I

Shipping of hunting trophies – The last link in the chain

International transportation of hunting trophies is subject to the terms and conditions of government agencies and carriers as well as wildlife and port regulations. The recent

A conservationist beyond any doubt – Kai-Uwe Denker

Over the years the NAPHA Conservationist of the Year Award was given to a journalist who wrote about issues of national conservation importance; dedicated MET officials

Following the big conversations, what future for conservation?

Major conferences are defined by the interim periods and none more so than the period now, which follows the back to back IUCN World Conservation Congress

The role of hunting through the eyes of a non-hunting conservationist

I am not a hunter. Nor have I ever been. And if I am to be totally open and honest, I stopped eating meat when I

The tapestry of a leopard hunt

I eased forward in my chair and softly felt the weld of the rifle stock against my cheek, my right eye collecting the black crosshair of

Nature’s ballet

I took my first klipspringer when I was nine or ten years old. Early one morning my father and I scaled the granite ridge behind our

That sunset bull

I have been to Namibia several times and its allure and mystique always draws me back. Every trip I’ve made there is filled with unique experiences.

With aching legs on hot stones

It wasn’t the first time that Roland had come to hunt in Namibia but two years ago it was the first time that he stayed with

Caprivi dreaming

My curiosity was stirred up by stories of hunting in “South West”, told on my rst safari to South Africa long ago. Since then I have

King of the mountains

Puros or Omburo means ‘a spring or place where water comes out’ in the Herero language. The name stands in sharp contrast to this arid semi-desert

Good sport & fair chase – mountain zebra in the Namib

Among all the misguided outrage against hunting, hysteric shitstorms and mob law in the media, which are so typical of our times, quite a few warning

To look a wild lion in the face

by Kai-Uwe Denker D uring the recent CITES Conference of Parties in Johannesburg it so happened that I was seated in the row behind the delegation

Namibia’s golden hour

Photo ©Paul van Schalkwyk I n a story entitled ‘Namibia – Land of contrasts and endless horizons’, which was published in the 2012 edition of HuntiNamibia,