10 Dollars Cape mountain zebra

The Cape mountain zebra (Equus zebra zebra) was reduced to fewer than 30 individuals by the 1950s before South African conservation intervention pulled it back from the brink. By 2007 the population had recovered to several thousand, confined largely to Mountain Zebra National Park and a handful of private reserves — none of them in Namibia, which hosts only the Hartmann's mountain zebra, a distinct subspecies. The Bank of Namibia's choice of subject is a deliberate pan-African conservation statement rather than a reflection of local fauna.