Natural Selection has opened Nkasa Linyanti, a six-tent camp on Nkasa Island in Namibia’s 74 000 acre Nkasa Rupara National Park. The camp is the island’s only luxury accommodation. Seasonal flooding from November to March transforms the landscape from open savannah to wetlands, creating a dynamic ecosystem of floodplains, channels and wooded islands. The park is also a significant birding destination with more than 430 bird species recorded.
Entirely unfenced, the park forms part of a vital wildlife corridor linking Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Namibia within the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). This open system allows wildlife to move freely across borders and supports an important elephant migration corridor linking Angola, Namibia and Botswana.
“Nkasa Linyanti is first and foremost a conservation project,” says Brent Cook, Co-Founder of Nkasa Linyanti. “Historically, this area experienced pressure from poaching but the establishment of the camp and the presence of conservation and monitoring teams have significantly reduced that threat. A measurable recovery in wildlife is now being recorded, including increased numbers of lion and elephant bulls and more relaxed elephant breeding herds – clear indicators of an ecosystem returning to stability.”
