Over the past five years the government has invested an average of about 2 percent of its total expenditure in biodiversity conservation with the aim to safeguard and maintain the health of the national ecosystem at all costs.
About 70 percent of the Namibian population depends directly on natural resources for their livelihoods - income, food, grazing land, medicinal plants, animal products, fuel and shelter.
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