10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
The Hamar women are immediately identifiable by their brick red hair braids, beautiful beaded jewelry and animal skin clothes designed to imitate gazelles. They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
These beaters usually take the form of grazing herds of game and domestic animals, and large flocks of carmine bee-eaters may gather overhead. After breeding they also disperse over the rainforests and savannas of West and Central Africa, where they hunt for aerial insects. They prefer open areas, especially around wetlands.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! Now that the colony is off limits for hunting, the population has grown and the village is benefitting tremendously from entry and guide fees, and a school is being built courtesy of conservation funds.
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