Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park. <i>(If you are interested in acquiring this image as a fine art print, visit <a href="http://www.lanting.com/open-edition-fine-prints/" target="_blank">franslanting.com</a>.)</i>
Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park. (If you are interested in acquiring this image as a fine art print, visit franslanting.com.)

Africa’s Super Park

In 1990 newly independent Namibia became one of the world’s first nations to write environmental protection into its constitution.

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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