🇳🇦Namibia

An umbrella alliance supporting Namibia's communal conservancies, which grant rural and indigenous communities legal rights to govern and profit from their own land and wildlife.

Backed by the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation, the Ju/'hoansi San of Namibia's Kalahari run an early-season controlled-burning program that has turned a conservancy once devastated by wildfire into a model of community fire mapping.

Namibia-based nonprofit protecting the world's largest wild cheetah population through research, farmer outreach and guard dogs.

Namibia's cold Benguela upwelling feeds a fishery employing 22,000 people; a proposal to vacuum phosphate off the seabed beneath it has been fought to a standstill for fifteen years.

Kelp Blue is cultivating vast offshore giant-kelp forests off Namibia's coast to lock carbon away in the deep ocean while rebuilding marine biodiversity.