Where It All Began

Namibia’s beautiful secret conservancy

About four hours’ drive north of Windhoek, Namibia, you’ll find just off the spectacular Namibian coast the Torra Conservancy. The conservancy seeks to keep human impact to an absolute minimum whilst supporting and sustaining human activity within it: in this way, it’s less of a game or wildlife reserve and more of an area where humans are permitted to flourish but not at the expense of nature.

The landscape as you head to the coast is littered with large reddish rocks, basalt, that have come to be there from thousands of volcanic eruptions from nearby (extinct) volcanoes. The Conservancy is proud to be able to say that it hosts the second largest population of black rhinos in the world and has increasing numbers of large mammals like lions too.  

For more information on this spectacular place, visit https://www.nacso.org.na/conservancies/torra