Namibia Designates Entire Coast Line As National Park

Telegraph:

Namibia has become what is thought to be the first country to designate its entire coastline a national park.

The Namib-Skeleton Coast National Park covers 26.6 million acres, making it larger than Portugal.

It stretches for 976 miles (1,570km), from the Kunene River, at the northern border with Angola, to the Orange River, on the border with South Africa, and is expected to be promoted as a unified destination. The protected coastline consolidates three national parks: Skeleton Coast, Namib-Naukluft and Sperrgebiet. The last is the site of Namibia's diamond mines, which have long been closed to the public.

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Comments

[HBD]

03:14 PM on 02/15/2011

Namibia is an extraordinarily beautiful place. Arid and, with only a causal glance, apparently empty but there is so much to see in that landscape--animals, geology, plant life--on the coast and inland as well. And the people are some of the friendliest anywhere.

Was there in November and would/will go back at the drop of a hat!

[Reyeshawk13]

08:16 AM on 02/15/2011

The Skeleton Coast is exceedingly cool and there's really not a whole lot else they can do with it.

[ZenCrusader]

11:46 AM on 02/13/2011

Namibia has more respect for land then people. It's good they did this but hardly improves my opinion of the devils who run that country. They are trying to improve their image and bring more tourist dollars. Their secret police thugs are lethal killers without conscience.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

01:25 PM on 02/12/2011

Talk about conservation on a massive scale. Good for them....just hope it remains accessible to the Namibian people. It would be a sin to deny access to a coastline so beautiful.

[Gracie fr]

06:00 AM on 02/12/2011

Well Done! Let's hope it stays relatively pristine!

[Max Shaw]

04:03 PM on 02/11/2011

Thats great news. I suppose people will hopefully stop throwing their McDonalds cups wherever they please now...lol.

But seriously, good for them.

[JPETERB]

02:30 PM on 02/11/2011

A great big "Thank You" to the people of Nambia and their government. A more meaningful and productive Valentine to the Earth and all of the Plants and Creatures and Humans who live on it could not have been given to all of our Children and their only Home.

[SangZe]

02:21 PM on 02/11/2011

Very nice, very nice. Photo reminds me of shots of the Mars surface.

[LMPE]

02:12 PM on 02/11/2011

I like the sound of that.

[coveark]

12:35 PM on 02/11/2011

Good for them on that idea.

[ZenCrusader]

11:53 AM on 02/11/2011

Namibia's policy with homosexuals and gay rights is very similar to Mugabe's. The Namibian Home Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo urged newly graduated police officers to "eliminate" gays and lesbians "from the face of Namibia". He was reported to have told the 700 police men and women "even if gays and lesbians had a gay dog they would murder it."
I think I'll pass on their new National Park.

[Talossa]

05:01 PM on 02/11/2011

It's also the only country on earth with a street named after Goering. Sort of.

[Andrew FingerlickingGree]

01:26 PM on 02/12/2011

Well, the park is a different issue.

[mcmutter]

10:44 AM on 02/11/2011

meanwhile in the USA we're turning our national parks into industrial sites ....

[Gasparilla]

10:18 AM on 02/11/2011

It's easier when it's a country that is very sparsely populated. But good for them.

[zeotrope]

09:57 AM on 02/11/2011

Now that is cool. Way to go Namibia.

[doodlebug2]

09:52 AM on 02/11/2011

pretty cool.