The air is raspingly dry and a thick heat swirls around the surrounding purple mountains, blurring them against a bleached blue sky. On the plains below, straw-yellow grass sways in the wind amid ...

All photographs by Teagan Cunniffe. It had the makings of a joke, crouching beside a drinking trough in the blistering Namib Desert waiting for a horse. What eluded me was the punch line. After half ...

The wild horses of the Garub have run free in the desert for almost a century. Watching the legendary herd grazing on the tall golden grass of the plains is an exhilarating experience. Like the ...

It’s still debated exactly how the Namibian desert became home to a herd of wild horses. One theory is that diamond prospectors brought horses more than a century ago to since-abandoned mining fields.

Pia has traveled to the Namib Desert. Far away from civilization, she visits the Gobabeb Desert Research Station and learns amazing things about the miraculous creatures of the Namib Desert. First, ...

Windhoek — The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has taken note of the concerns raised around the well-being and existence of the Namib wild horses after the last of the four foals born since ...

Desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along “green corridors”. The archaeology of ...

One might expect to see a gemsbok, a jackal or even a springbok on the trackless plains and dunefields of the great Namib Desert. But a horse?... It had the makings of a joke, crouching beside a ...