We are excited to announce that for the 2025 hunting season, we will have an additional hunting area available – the Leadwood Nature Reserve, a 13,000-hectare private nature reserve located in the heart of Namibia. Over the next few weeks, we will be completing a new camp to provide our hunting guests with a comfortable accommodation right in the reserve, offering...
Namibia Hunting News
Some news around hunting activities and social responsibility of Ondjou & Van Heerden Safaris.
If various bachelor herds of well balanced age groups can be found in a communal hunting block / conservancy, the quota setting process seems to work after being applied for 12 years with close to 100% utilisation of the allocated quota.
Different seasons as well as annual rainfall play a role when it comes to animal movement in a larger landscape. These factors should be carefully considered when setting a new quota.
In July 2021, a film team, organized by the German Hunting Association (www.jadgverband.de) together with the German delegation of the Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (www.cic-wildlife.de), visited our Dzoti hunting concession in the Zambezi region in northeastern Namibia. In various interviews, for example with Smith Sheketo and Annedia Limbo, members of the Dzoti Conservancy Committee, and Hentie van Heerden, an...
An endless horizon, game in their natural habitat, beautiful sunsets, the intense color contrast of the yellow grass, the grey-white soil of the Etosha salt pan and the blue sky as well as the most friendly people of the Ovambo tribe, is a experience that one should not miss in Namibia. Book your next safari in King Nehale and combine it...
Winter has arrived with big steps and the nights are pretty cold now, nothing below zero degrees Celsius yet, but cold enough to spend the evenings at the warm fireplace with some good homemade biltong. The biltong hunting season started recently. The temperature and the extremely low humidity are perfect conditions to produce this tasty Namibian specialty.
The meat from all our hunts is completely utilized and used by the local community, mostly to make biltong, the typical dried and spiced raw meat from the Southern African countries.
After long dry spells with very little or sometimes no rain, open water become scarce and might disappear. This is a major influencing factor for wildlife in Africa but especially in an arid country like Namibia.
The 2 photos are showing the same Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata – Affenbrotbaum) and damage done to the tree by elephants. This kind of damage is common in areas where a high elephant population occurs. The damage to the tree species is to such an extent that the tree is highly threatened and disappearing slowly.
Small family herd of elephants passing in front of our Dzoti hunting camp with a big flock of locusts flying by.