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Bezuidenhout	Mr Stephan Bezuidenhout	NCE Exco
Brown	Dr Chris Brown	NCE Exco
Hauptfleisch	Dr Morgan Hauptfleisch	NCE Exco
Lindeque	Dr Malan Lindeque	NCE Exco
Loots	Mr. Charles Loots (Chairperson)	NCE Exco
Mupewa	Mr. Itaveleni Mupewa	NCE Exco
Vinte	Mr. Mendes Vinte	NCE Exco

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Brown	CEO: Dr Chris Brown	NCE staff
Krohne	Office Manager: Ms Henriette Krohne	NCE staff
Shangheta	Office Cleaner: Klaudia Shangheta	NCE staff

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Tavolaro	Marina Tavolaro	Postgraduate student

Harvesting of hardwood timber in North Eastern Regions of Namibia and associated deforestation

The NCE is deeply concerned about the current commercial harvesting of slow-growing hardwood trees in the north east of Namibia (mainly Kavango East and West, northern Otjozondjupa and Zambezi).

We, as Namibian conservationists, including environmental NGOs, researchers, community representatives and conservancies, hereby join a group of international conservationists in voicing our support for Botswana’s consultative process to address the challenges associated with managing its large elephant population. We applaud President Masisi and Botswana’s parliament for establishing the consultative process that looks to balance wildlife conservation with the needs and aspirations of the citizens of Botswana.

The Namibian Chamber of Environment would like to congratulate the Namibian Cabinet and the Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources for making this important decision. We recognise that the Ministry is sometimes placed in a difficult position, and has to weigh up fish resource sustainability with business interests and jobs. However, it is important that the health of the fish resource must take priority.

Namibian civil society deplores the US President’s decision to abandon the Paris Climate Agreement.

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday 1 June 2017 that the United States, one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases that cause climate change, will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Hunting and tourism in Namibia

Well-managed hunting is extremely good for conservation. In many areas, it is essential for conservation.

Hunters and tourism operators should and must be on the same side – to make land under wildlife more productive than under other forms of land use. They are natural allies.

NCE firmly supports the environmental clauses in the Namibian Constitution, including the sustainable use of natural resources for the benefit of all Namibians, both present and future. However, the Chamber is opposed to the capture of rare and endangered marine animals for the aquarium trade for the following reasons...

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