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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Sleeping Lion
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a sleeping lion. Photographer Sue Marchesiello was on safari in Ishasha National Park, Uganda
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Carnivore Stories from Botswana
Botswana is one of five adjacent countries within whose borders lies KAZA, the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, the world’s largest transboundary conservation area. While KAZA is important as the stronghold of half of Africa’s
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The Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Few tourists have ever ventured here. It is a place famous for whale bones, lions, fur seals, and ship wrecks. The Skeleton Coast is unusually beautiful and getting there is the adventure of a
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Losing Wildlife Hurts Biodiversity—and Our Bottom Lines
Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global tourism industry. This comes from a paper published in late 2015 in the
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Play Time
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected lion cubs running through the Serengeti. Photographer Steve Grodin watched these young lions playing
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The 9 Best Dads of the Animal Kingdom
We wanted to wish a happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, both human and animal fathers alike! As a tribute to hardworking dads, we made a list of some of the
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Encountering Lions in Botswana on my First Trip to Africa
Like many people I have always dreamt of traveling to Africa. After spending the last 15 years working in international development and conservation, I’ve had the wonderful opportunities to travel extensively in the Americas
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Golden Lion Tamarin Monkeys in Brazil
I love monkeys. What can I say, I think it could be a genetic thing because everyone in my family seems to have a fondness for these creatures. So, it should be no surprise
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