As we wrap up our annual work and celebrate our conservation successes despite the challenges, first and foremost, we would like to thank all the frontline workers on the ground who work – and walk – in the field to monitor and protect our natural resources, including the conservancy game guards, conservancy lion or rhino rangers, fish guards or community resource monitor.

On 18 November 2018, Rhino Rangers were honoured for their critical contribution to the protection of the world’s largest free-ranging black rhino population in Twyfelfontein at the Uibasen conservancy office. 41 Rhino Rangers in the Kunene and Erongo regions of north-western Namibia were honoured at the 2nd Annual Kunene Rhino Awards for their tireless work to protect the country’s free-ranging black rhino.