Happy Easter – Rhino meets Rabbit
Africa’s first specialist, dedicated, non‐commercial centre to care for baby rhinos opened at the Wildlife & Cultural Centre at Legend Golf & Safari Resort in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. See more about The Rhino Orphanage on Facebook .
Malawi 2013 Safari Awards runner up “Best Africa Tourist Board”
I think it’s time to re-visit Malawi! I’ve written about the dream destination Mumbo Island in the middle of Lake Malawi, but haven’t been anywhere else in Malawi. This feels like a good year to go. Why? Because Malawi has just been crowned runner-up in The 2013 Safari Awards’ “Best Africa Tourist Board” category –...
World Rhino Day 22 Sept 2012 – what you can do from where you sit
There are many ways to help save the rhino from where you sit right now; the simplest is to donate to an organisation doing something tangible in Africa to save this ancient species that has been around for can you believe it 14.2 millions years! Can we, the civilized people of the 21st century let something that...
Governor’s Camp host BBC Film Crew
BBC’s Planet Earth Live film crew have set up at Governors Camp in the Masai Mara – one of the first and most loved safari lodges I visited in the mid 1990s. The BBC’s latest wildlife documentary Planet Earth Live will be broadcast live during the month of May 2012 and the team staying at...
Khaya Ndlovu Manor House, nr Kruger/Hoedspruit
Some photos make you want to be in the picture at this very moment and this is one of them. Read what writer Fiona Zerbst has to say about Khaya Ndlovu, a private lodge near Kruger……… Four-star Khaya Ndlovu Manor House, reclining in the bushveld close to Hoedspruit, just happens to be the family...
Poisoning Rhino Horns to Stop Poachers
Harsh sentence a sign that SA’s getting tough on scourge: three Mozambican rhino poachers were today given 25 year sentences for killing rhino in Kruger National Park. The picture shows a white rhino having poison injected into its horn to deter poachers.
Sibuya Game Lodge, nr Port Elizabeth
This privately owned reserve up the Kariega River from Kenton-on-Sea in the Eastern Cape is the Garden of Eden. It has all the components of nature that make you want to weep at its beauty, marvel at the perfect animal specimens all fat and glossy coats, and sink into the sophoric rhythm of the river, in/on which...
World Rhino Day
Further to my previous post, ABSA the male rhino at Aquila Game Reserve near Cape Town died from his injuries. Today is World Rhino Day, yet every day a rhino is killed in Africa.
Rhino Poaching: I am in tears
I can’t begin to tell you how upset I am about the rampant rhino poaching happening in South Africa. This week it’s come very close to home when three rhinos were attacked at Aquila Private Game Reserve just a couple of hours’ drive north of Cape Town. Then last night another three rhinos were found dead in a...
Rhino Poaching SOS
In 2009, 122 rhino were butchered for their horns in South Africa. In 2010 this figure nearly tripled and this upward trend shows no sign of slowing in 2011. Amongst others, Mahlatini wish to raise the profile of the rhinos’ delicate situation and help gain supporters for the struggle against the rhino poachers. Help Mahlatini by entering...