Namibia

Namibia

Namibia

Namibia

Namibia Dollar

Namibia ... or Sesfontein was no more an isolated village somewhere, hidden away in Namibia.

Mauritius, Namibia all in single digits.

And that was a very strong thing in Namibia.

So, come and talk to me about Namibia, and better yet, come to Namibia and see for yourself how we have done it.

Never mind that I knew nothing about places like Namibia.

A Himba is one of the 29 ethnic groups in Namibia.

It lives in a deep trench off the coast of Namibia.

And this is exactly what happened to Helma and Dongo from Namibia.

It is about a country in the southwest of Africa called Namibia.

Namibia has got 2.1 million people, but it is only twice the size of California.

So please, if you go to Namibia, make sure that you stay in the tents.

They love Namibia for its beautiful dunes, that are even taller than the Empire State Building.

Namibia serving as a model to Africa, and Africa serving as a model to the United States.

German Southwest Africa that's now known as Namibia German East Africa which is now Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

Most people that are following the story of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will know where Namibia is.

Today, we have got 60 conservancies that manage and protect over 13 million hectares of land in Namibia.

We were successful in Namibia because we dreamed of a future that was much more than just a healthy wildlife.

And thus, as people started feeling ownership over wildlife, wildlife numbers started coming back, and that's actually becoming a foundation for conservation in Namibia.

Boston is a little bit like Namibia in its cell phone coverage, (Laughter) so that we're not accustomed to that all the time, but some of the time.

Business communities helped bring Namibia onto the world map and they have also helped make wildlife a very valuable land use like any other land uses such as agriculture.

This plant is called the Welwitschia, and it lives only in parts of coastal Namibia and Angola, where it's uniquely adapted to collect moisture from mist coming off the sea.

And most of my conservation colleagues today that you find in Namibia have been trained through the initiative, through the involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the most up to date conservation practices.

So if you're running Namibia for Coca Cola, and you have a 107 constituencies, you know where every can versus bottle of Sprite, Fanta or Coke was sold, whether it was a corner store, a supermarket or a pushcart.

And now, what the world really needs is for you to help me and our partners take some of what we have learned in Namibia to other places with similar problems places like Mongolia, or even in your own backyards, the Northern Great Plains, where buffalo and other animals have suffered and many communities are in decline.

But, in fact, if you have cell phones, you can now go to this nice lady who's somewhere like Namibia, and who is extremely happy with the fact that although she does not have an master's degree in electrical engineering from MlT, she's nonetheless able to hack her cell phone to get power in some funny way.

I spoke to a biologist at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Capetown to ask him where he thought this remarkable plant came from, and his thought was that if you travel around Namibia, you see that there are a number of petrified forests, and the logs are all the logs are all giant coniferous trees, and yet there's no sign of where they might have come from.