BOESMANLAND
With the exception of lion, almost all wildlife species are found in the Mangetti National Park. (Frank Hรถppener)
Boesmanland
(also called Bushman land) is a historic region in north-eastern Namibia. It has the largest remaining group of Bushmen or San people who still live on their ancestral land, the Nyae Nyae Conservancy. The Bushmen occupied the southern African sub-continent long before black and white settlers invaded their territories. They lived in the Kalahari for some 20 000 years as hunter-gatherers and survived by hunting and gathering edible plants. The Bushmen at the Nyae Nyae Conservancy are still very traditional as they only had contact with western civilisation since 1950. At Tsumkwe, the main town of the
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