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Video: Elephants and Lions Align Against Rhinos
The term Africa’s Big Five means something quite different today than it did when it was coined in the late 1800s during the continent’s colonial period. Then, it referenced the animals—Cape buffalo (or African buffalo),
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Lazy Day
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of a lion resting in a tree in Africa. Photographer
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: King of the Savannah
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a portrait of a lion in South Africa. Photographer Wesley Whitfield captured
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Lion Brothers
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a photo of two male lions. Photographer Susan Topper watched these two
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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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