Our Approach
ORKCA strives to be an engine of sustainable economic growth through landscape restoration and community stewardship in Southern Namibia. ORKCA connects land units, through partnership and purchase, to form one vast, continuous, ecologically diverse conservation area where people and nature are resilient to climate impacts. At the heart of ORKCA’s vision is creating livelihoods from low impact but inclusive land use models, protecting extraordinary wildlife and land resources and building capacity towards a conservation-based future. ORKCA works alongside Wilderness Foundation Africa (WFA) who are securing land on the South African side of the Orange River and together ORKCA will create a transboundary reserve of 2 million acres, the largest rewilding story in Africa.
SECURE LAND
- Secure land from willing sellers.
- Unite farms to create one continuous conservation area.
- Create an incentive-based, income-diversifying model to attract neighbouring landowners as partners.
RESTORE AND REWILD
- Remove fences, livestock and invasive species.
- Reintroduce indigenous and endangered species and restore migratory grazing patterns.
- Measure impact on biodiversity and carbon.
- Re-establish healthy wildlife populations in community-owned conservancies.
EMPOWER COMMUNITY
- In partnership with local communities, create revenue generating activities around nature-based solutions.
- Co-govern strategy and operations with Nama community conservancies.
- Foster local community’s sense of ownership in ORKCA.
- Invest in educational, livelihood and capacity building outreach projects.
MONITOR AND MANAGE
- Invest into the security of free roaming wildlife and threatened species both within ORKCA and southern Namibia.
- Meticulously audit, evaluate and report on impact of interventions.
- Introduce rigorous landscape-wide reserve monitoring systems to inform proactive management.
Projects
Inclusive capacity sharing and co-governing with local communities, revenue generating activities