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AfarTV has received permission from Gondwana Collection to stream their live feed.

AfarTV is asking for your assistance in counting wildlife species types and numbers in the Namib Desert from this live camera. This daily inventory of sightings will be stored in a database and be used to measure the health and trends of local fauna. Add your sightings to the chatbox and include a timestamp of the sighting. Moderators will take it from there. Thank you and have fun!

The stats bar at the bottom of the screen contain the following information (left to right)
1. Number of days this camera has been running
2. Current local date and time in Namibia
3. Current local temperature
4. Current wind speed and direction
5. Current Humidity level
6. Visibility
7. Time of the next sunrise or sunset
8. Wildlife sightings for the current day*. The number of unique species of mammals (deer icon), birds and reptiles (snake icon). Multiple sightings of the same species are not counted here.
9. Name of wildlife currently in view OR the latest sighting.

* Species counts are reset to 0 each day.


This camera is located near the Namib Desert Lodge https://bit.ly/afartv-namib-desert-lodge. the Namib Desert Lodge is part of the Gondwana Collection of accommodations. Sustainability in Namibia is part of their philosophy and they strongly promote nature conservation and a social commitment to the Namibian people.

The waterhole was built in 2006. A solar-powered pump fills a reservoir from a borehole to supply the waterhole via a float valve under the central hump. Its maximum depth is about 6 inches.

GPS Coordinates: 24.074923°S, 15.887411°E
Weather data from Maltahöhe, Hardap Region, Namibia

About the Namib Desert (Source Wikipedia)

The Namib Desert is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. The name Namib is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place". According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape, South Africa. The Namib's northernmost portion, which extends 450 kilometres (280 mi) from the Angola-Namibia border, is known as Moçâmedes Desert, while its southern portion approaches the neighboring Kalahari Desert. From the Atlantic coast eastward, the Namib gradually ascends in elevation, reaching up to 200 kilometres (120 mi) inland to the foot of the Great Escarpment.[2] Annual precipitation ranges from 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in the most arid regions to 200 millimetres (7.9 in) at the escarpment, making the Namib the only true desert in southern Africa.[2][4][5] Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55–80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert in the world[2][5] and contains some of the world's driest regions, with only western South America's Atacama Desert to challenge it for age and aridity benchmarks.

The Namib fauna mostly comprises arthropods and other small animals that can live on little water, but a few species of bigger animals are also found, including antelopes (such as oryxes and springboks), ostriches, and in some areas even desert elephants. All these species have developed techniques to survive in the Namib environment. A number of endemic darkling beetles species — such as the Namib Desert beetle — have bumpy elytrons with a pattern of hydrophilic bumps and hydrophobic troughs. These cause humidity from the morning fogs to condense into droplets, which roll down the beetle's back to its mouth; they are collectively known as "fog beetles". Another beetle, the Lepidochora discoidalis, builds "water-capturing" webs. Black-backed jackals lick humidity from stones. Gemsboks (also known as oryxes) can raise the temperature of their bodies to 40 °C in the hottest hours of the day. The desert is also home to meerkats and several species of lizards.


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