Tag: Riemvasmaakers

The Riemvasmaakers, as subsistence farmers, have been living together with wildlife while also working to protect wildlife and the environment for ecotourism since the 1980’s when theirs was the first communal conservancy registered in Namibia, the Torra Conservancy. Originally, this community fled to South Africa during the war of 1904-1907. Of Nama, Damara and Herero descent, in 1974 the Riemvasmaakers were …