African Safaris
Walking through a Big Five wildlife reserve on foot is not a typical safari experience. It requires focus, awareness and trust. On Earthwatch’s Walking with Wildlife in South Africa expedition, participants do exactly that, collecting data that helps guide the management of one of Africa’s most important protected areas.
Conservation
Where Conservation Becomes Connection Across mountains, oceans and forests, Earthwatch participants follow the paths of wildlife—and often discover something about themselves along the way. We’ve all seen the phrase on trailheads and park signs: “Leave only footprints, take only memories.”
African Safaris
On the northern edge of Kenya’s Greater Maasai Mara, a powerful restoration effort is reshaping a once-degraded landscape. At Enarau Conservancy, eroded gullies are stabilizing, native trees are returning and wildlife is reappearing in areas where it has vanished.
Conservation
At first light on the Yarapa River, participants gather along the deck of a restored wooden riverboat, notebooks in hand, ready to record the first data of the day. Macaw pairs lift from their roosts, primate calls reverberate across the canopy and the soft exhalation of pink and gray river dolphins breaks the river’s surface.
African Safaris
By Sarah Wishart Touching Down in the Mara Nearly two days after leaving my home in a chilly Mystic, Connecticut, our 14-seater Cessna plane ground to a halt at the Ngerende Airstrip, a gravel runway within the Olchoro–Oirogua Conservation Ranch just outside Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Reserve.