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African Safaris
While it’s never been easy to make your living as an animal in Africa, wildlife presently residing there face even more challenges than their ancestors did. For example, in the last four months in Kenya alone, poachers have killed eighteen rhinos and fifty-one elephants.
African Safaris
There is a good reason that Sabi Sabi is legendary safari country. Located within South Africa’s Sabi Sand Reserve, Sabi Sabi is a favorite of safari aficionados for its big cat encounters and sheer diversity and abundance of species.
African Safaris
Here are a few of our favorite shots taken last month by guests and guides in the Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve. Sabi Sabi is located in the Sabi Sand Reserve, which is adjacent to South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
African Safaris
If any place in the world can turn someone into a birdwatcher, it’s Africa. The staggering abundance and diversity of birdlife often surprises first time safari goers. Over 1,100 species have been identified in Kenya alone, about 200 more than have been spotted in all of North America.
African Safaris
Dying to witness the awesome spectacle of the Great Serengeti Migration, but only have 59 seconds to spare? Then you’ve come to the right place. Burard-Lucas Photography shot the footage below over a five-day period as the herds crossed the Mara River from Kenya into northern Tanzania.
African Safaris
Looking to do something a little different on your trip to Africa? Here are a few of our favorite camps and lodges that put a bit of a different spin on the classic safari experience. 1. Join the herd at Abu Camp.
Galapagos Islands
Darwin’s “On the Origin of the Species” kicked off a Galapagos publishing craze over 150 years ago. Since then, dozens and dozens of volumes showcasing and celebrating the natural history and wildlife of the islands have hit the shelves. The 500-year long human history in the islands, on the other hand, has been largely (though not completely) ignored.
Travel Tales
There are a few rare places in the world where time as a linear construct just doesn’t seem to make much sense; places where the past, present and even the future seem to be all jumbled together, like pack ice piled up along a shoreline.
Conservation
Republished with permission from WWF-Canada. To see the original article, please go here. By Steph Morgan, WWF-Canada If you’re looking for a snow leopard, Dr. Rinjan Shrestha can tell you where to go. The question is: are you tough enough to get there?
African Safaris
Condé Nast Traveler released its 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards yesterday, including readers’ picks for the top 20 lodges and safari camps in Africa. South Africa dominated this year’s list, with six of the top ten and nine of the top 20 properties. Botswana came in six second, with six properties on the list.
African Safaris
Londolozi is famous for its leopards. So it’s not surprise that November’s ten best photos taken by the private reserve’s guides and guests offer four very different perspectives, from action to quiet repose, of these majestic cats.
Videos
We Earthlings are lucky. While other planets in our solar system are either blistering hot or bitterly cold, the surface of Earth has relatively mild and stable temperatures. We get to enjoy these conditions because of the Earth’s atmosphere, the thin layer of gases that envelop and protect our planet.
