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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n

The minister of environment, forestry, and tourism, Pohamba Shifeta, has called on the leaders of conservancies and community forests to avoid dividing communities along tribal, political, or ethnic lines.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the joint handover of grants and equipment in the Zambezi region this week, Shifeta emphasised that conservancies should benefit all members, regardless of their backgrounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cA conservancy or community forest should never be used as a tool to divide the community members along tribal, political, racial, or ethnic lines. It is a tool that we use to safeguard our common interests,\u201d said Shifeta.<\/p>\n

Shifeta further urged community leaders to remain committed to nation-building and avoid fostering conflicts based on tribal affiliations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll members of a specific conservancy or community forest should benefit, irrespective of the traditional authority they belong to,\u201d Shifeta reiterated.<\/p>\n

Shifeta emphasized that the communities themselves developed and proposed the projects, aiming to address the human-wildlife conflict and improve livelihoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grants and equipment we are handing over today are community-planned, community-led, and community-implemented to ensure that communities are empowered to address human-wildlife conflict and livelihoods in the Zambezi Region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The handover ceremony involved grants and equipment for two projects, the \u201cPoverty-Orientated Support to Community Conservation in Namibia Project\u201d and the \u201cCommunity Livelihood Development and Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Project.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Namibian Government and the Federal Republic of Germany co-financed both projects through the KfW Development Bank.<\/p>\n

These initiatives have received a total allocation of N$16.2 million.<\/p>\n

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