30 disadvantaged high school students from the Imbali settlement outside of Pietermaritzburg have the opportunity of a lifetime. As a reward for excellent performance Nikela is sponsoring the Meholokazulu’s environmental club on a field trip to experience Shannon’s free flying raptors this Saturday (10/30/10). Join the fun if you like by contributing $9.75 for one
“It’s a pleasant day. Two rhino mothers graze peacefully along the edge of the trees. A half grown calf wallows in the mud hole. Her small beady eyes the only part of her leathery body not caked. She’s just pulling herself away, bits of mud splattering when the helicopter flies over. Not the actual baby…
White Lion It’s our last morning. We’re in a small quiet coastal village called Scarborough on the Cape Peninsula. The skies are blue, the wind is soft and the ocean a deep turquoise blue. Sea gulls and cormorant dot the rocks and beach. Tiny sea snails, limpets, mussles and other sea life hide in the
There on the right appears this huge net. As we get closer it only gets larger and we see the birds. The wire netting rises high over 2.1761 hectares and encloses 375.372 cubic meters and is the world’s largest free flight multi-species bird aviary. Housing around 2,000 birds of over 160 different species living in
“It’s quite rustic,” is a phrase we hear frequently. Which means: we built it ourselves, or it hasn’t been updated in a while, or it doesn’t have much of anything. It’s been 25 days of touring and we’ve slept in eight different Backpackers or B&Bs with at least two more locations to go. ‘Backpackers’ are
South Africa is only 1% of the world’s land mass, which is quite insignificant. However, it is home to 10% of the world’s mammals, birds and reptiles, now that puts South Africa on the “take notice” list. My most favorite raptor, the Bateleur How much does South Africa care about it’s wildlife. In talking
After an inspiring visitors’ tour of the Moholoholo rehab center Brian took us behind the scenes. A couple of days earlier they’d been called out to a mass snaring. Must have been awful! An entire lion pride (six), a wildebeest, two hyenas and a vulture had been brutally caught. Only one lioness with huge neck
Here I am in the middle of writing this blog entry when Russ walks in. He’s just talked to Les in a cabin next to ours. Les is a national anti poaching expert. He’s in this part of the country to do training. 294 Rhino have been poached this year in Southern Africa! 100 of
Remember being at the Zoo standing in front of a majestic enclosure in awe of the lion in front of you? With visions of a Discovery Channel Special you were enchanted by this magnificent animal of the wild. Yes he is serving mankind as an important ambassador not only for his species but the whole
