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Volunteer Work with Desert Elephants in Namibia

Surrounding area, and other inhabitants

Damaraland is a vast, scarcely-populated communal trust land. As it is a transitional zone between the high rainfall area in the east and the Skeleton Coast in the west, it is regarded as un-farmable on a commercial basis. Therefore it has become a natural, unfenced refuge for desert-adapted animals such as; black rhino, oryx, giraffe, springbuck, kudu, steenbok, baboon, lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted hyena, brown hyena, black-backed jackal and more.

These areas used to be inhabited by nomadic bushman hunter-gatherers, of whom there is lots of evidence in the form of thousands of rock paintings and engravings. Now, beyond the fringe of permanent settlements, only nomadic pastoral farmers, and tourists venture.

This area is still regarded as one of the last true wilderness areas left on earth!