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trip – a total of 1.47 million tons of meat

✓ To feed 1.5 million tourists, at an average of 180 grams (6.5 ounces) of meat per day per
person one needs = 270 tons (600,000 pounds) of meat per day:
✓ For 9 days on average this is a total of 2.43 million kg of meat for all tourists.
✓ With conservation hunting alone, if we only feed tourist’s venison – which a lot of lodges to –
there is not enough to go around.
✓ Yes, there is commercial meat hunting as well as domestic stock raised for meat consumption
– but I think you get the point we are making here.

• Water
✓ Water is an incredibly scarce resource in Namibia. Most water is pumped out of underground
reserves.
✓ At 100 liters (26 gallons) per person per day (a very low number) just tourism uses 150 million
liters (57 million gallons) of water per day = 60 Olympic size swimming pools of water per day
for guests only.

✓ Vegetables – a vegetarian in the middle of Namibia’s wilderness has a far greater negative
ecological effect eating fruit and vegetables transported 1000’s of kilometers to get there than
eating venison.
✓ Shower and toilet waste

• Fossil fuels
✓ Tourism uses an enormous amount of

fossil fuels to get tourists to Namibia, and
then onto their destination. Camps and
lodges then also need to be supplied as
well as the tourists driven around.
✓ Electricity needs to be generated. Solar
has become a popular option.

• Trash - This needs to be dealt with and is
often too expensive to be taken to the
nearest town for recycling = it is buried close
to the camp or lodge.

• Employment - The huge number of those

employed in conservation hunting vs.
tourism is significant.

Points to consider:
• It takes 5.4 tourists per day to generate the
same revenue as one conservation – at

what cost to the environment?
• All tourists are not vegetarian, and the meat
must come from somewhere?
• Conservation hunting harvests animals in a