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Situation Critical for Zimbabwe Wildlife

Critter News

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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Review: Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa

10,000 Birds

How many copies of Sasol does one human need? A bird drove me nuts in Tembe Elephant Park, as I couldn’t find it on the app. In particular the GPS function didn’t seem to work in Botswana and Zimbabwe (I am, I have to confess, guessing there was a GPS function as it seemed to work in South Africa in areas with no signal.

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