Friday Photo: Telemetry
Wildlife documentaries make finding wildlife look easy, I can assure you it’s not. Whilst in South Africa I had the chance to search for a radio collared lioness. To cut a long story short..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Lone Waterbuck
As the name suggests, Waterbuck are heavily dependent on water, rarely venturing more than a few kilometers away from rivers or waterholes..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Zulu the orphaned Meerkat
Say hi to Zulu, the orphaned Meerkat. His mother had been killed on a road, with Zulu left sitting on the verge. A kind passer-by brought him to..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Cheetah
Cheetah are not doing well. Everyone knows about their fabled speed and agility, but few realise quite how fragile they are. Many of us have seen them in zoo’s..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Blue Wildebeest
Yesterday, for the first time in two months, I woke up in frosty England, a world away from Africa. Having grown up in the urban wilderness of North Essex..
Read More →
12 Things I’ll miss about South Africa
My time in South Africa is rapidly drawing to a close, tomorrow I fly home to a chilly but festive England. Here’s 12 things I’ll miss about the rainbow nation..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Rhino Monitoring
It was a Tuesday, the day after I wrote about That Monday morning feeling, and we left early to check our small mammal traps. En route we came across this male White Rhino..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Speaking at a school in South Africa
As part of the work on UmPhafa Reserve we work with local schools and the community. Recently, I was able to visit the school in Colenso..
Read More →
On Fences: A uniquely South African approach to conservation
I dream of wide open spaces, the wild places. Africa, I had imagined, would have more than it’s fair share of these..
Read More →
10,000 hits and that Monday morning feeling
It’s a Monday morning and I’ve got that all too infrequent Monday morning feeling; excitement..
Read More →
Friday Photo: Verraux’s Eagle
This photo of Verreaux’s Eagle (or The Black Eagle) was taken at Raptor Ridge on the edge of the Drakensberg Mountains. Here, it swooped down..
Read More →
