10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
The history of Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa is a slightly unusual one. But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. And elephants are always overwhelming anyway. Tembe Elephant Park is a mosaic of savannah and forest.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. One may say so.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2021
This time we travel to Africa, or to narrow it further, to the Afrotropical region (since the north of the continent avifaunally belongs to the Palearctic). Geographic patterns of species richness for birds (1,558 species) in East Africa at 0.25° resolution (blue indicates low species richness, while brown indicates high species richness).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Think of African safaris and many people will naturally envisage herds of elephants and antelope, alongside some of the largest predators in the world. All very exciting, but for the birder Africa has so much more to offer. I am a wildlife artist based in the UK, I have never had a real job! My name is Ashley Boon.
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2018
After a very long day of 7 hours of driving, 11 hours flying and then 9 hours more driving, we have arrived at our temporary home here in South Africa. The house is a four bedroom, four bath two story, with a deck running around three sides of the upper story, great for wildlife viewing. This will act as our base for the next 20 days.
Critter News
APRIL 20, 2012
From the Wildlife Extra News. King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt. April 2012.
Critter News
DECEMBER 3, 2009
More than two tons of illegal ivory have been seized and more than 100 people have been arrested in the largest international operation targeting wildlife crime across Eastern Africa, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced today. Tags: ivory wildlife trafficking africa elephants.
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