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Saturday Night Wild!

4 The Love Of Animals

The fun starts tonight with a show called “Swamp of the Baboons&# , which takes a look at the complex social network of baboons in Botswana. Among the forested islands and wildlife-rich floodplains of Botswana lies the highest concentration of baboons in Africa. Saturday Night Wild!

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What makes a good bird guide?

10,000 Birds

And, a dozen years later, I still remember his name: Steven Makala , working for the Limpopo River Lodge in the Tuli Block province of Botswana. He suffered from the lack of experience as a traveler and someone who has hired guides himself. He had no binoculars and yet, was easily picking up and correctly identifying birds around us.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. If tourists are too dim to tell Sierra Leone from Botswana or Tanzania, do we really want to rely on them to save Africa’s species? Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.

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