Safari companies stress the need to protect the environment for future generations and yet are caught up in the capitalistic / materialistic management of human affairs.As a company grows and faces new challenges the perceptions […]
There are 86 400 seconds in a day, and it is said that most of these pass by unnoticed. It is also said that some moments, be they merely one second or a portion of […]
Glossy tourist brochures offer an experience of the ‘Real Africa’ where you can feel the pulse of the Africa of old throbbing through your veins. Bouncing around in a Landrover and then retiring to your […]
The female was pregnant again. This was her fifth pregnancy and she had lost all her previous young at an early age – two were killed by hyenas, one presumed killed by baboons and the […]
The slaughter of Elephants for Ivory is one of the most heated debates in conservation circles today, with two opposing points of view. The solution lies somewhere in between. Legal Selling of Ivory The Convention […]
The termite mound is one of the characteristic features of the African landscape, where structures of all shapes and sizes can be observed on the savannahs.Having been around for over 50 million years the termite […]
Mankind has evolved to a place we sit in judgement of all we do not agree with, but the wilderness provides us with a mirror of what we have become over time. Of Vultures, life […]
Waterholes are the lifeline for animals in the wilderness areas of Africa during the dry season, but they may also be death traps when they dry up. Waterholes of the dry season Dry waterholes have […]
Lions are the iconic animals for most visitors to Africa and the most visitors will have the opportunity of seeing them on game drives, but at times it is the looking for the Lions that […]
The African Skimmer … previous attempts were met with frustration as the skimmers were always sitting on the sandbanks and, except for occasional short flights, I could ever photograph them in the air or ‘skimming’ […]