Elephants, rhinos, lions, buffaloes and leopards – the Big Five – are the wildlife jewels of Namibia. Everything revolves around them, and the international public increasingly admires Namibia’s ability to manage these heroes of the savannah, find solutions to the human-wildlife conflict, and yet allow them to be hunted within sustainable limits. But there are also other animals, smaller ones, supposedly unimpressive: the honey badger, for example. This spirited little fighter stands for many others that inhabit Namibia’s wilderness and in their entirety make for the fascination of the Namibian fauna. Is the honey badger huntable? No! But that does not matter for a modern hunter who increasingly sees himself as a nature conservationist. He is happy when he can watch this animal. Which is not so easy, because it is mainly active at night and at dusk. Watch a honey badger and you will almost inevitably admire it.
Immo Vogel
Granted, I was damn lucky to be able to watch a honey badger for almost an hour in an extraordinary and exciting situation. Adventurous stories came to mind, of honey badgers that successfully fight a black mamba or even leopards and lions. Tall tales? Blooming imagination, I figured, and I would still think so if I had not seen the battle with my own eyes and captured it on camera.
It was last year – 2019, the terrible record-breaking year of drought – on one of those mornings when you wondered if it really made any sense to go hunting. The game was suffering and you did not want to add to its distress. But our hunting farm Gross-Okandjou is also a farm like many others. The workers need meat.…
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