Löwen River Rewilding
A private, non-profit initiative on a mission to bring back the wild beauty of Southern Namibia by focusing on the soil, vegetation and wildlife.
Bringing back the wild beauty of Southern Namibia
This land once carried 2,200 sheep, at the expense of much else. Thirty years of overgrazing and scarce rain saw to that. We're restoring the vegetation across 12,750 hectares so the land can carry something wilder again: kudus, zebras, oryx, springboks, birds, insects — the lot!
Our team
We bring together an on-site field team, Namibian students, conservation partners and specialists in ecology, land management and technology.
Work ranges from maintaining boreholes and camera traps to mapping vegetation, removing fences and testing restoration methods.
Our approach
On the plains, half-moons catch seed and rain. In drainage lines, gabions slow erosion and help water infiltrate.
Bush-packing protects bare soil. Boreholes support people and carefully selected planting, while satellite imagery, field surveys and camera traps
help us test our assumptions.
Our local presence
Boreholes need maintaining, fences need moving (or removing), and
someone has to check whether the camera trap caught anything more
interesting than a porcupine last night.
That's our local team, on-site, year-round.
