by Marion Ellis | Mar 20, 2024 | Green Matters, Insightful Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters
Image credit: Frank Weitzer / African Parks “Seldom do we hear good news about elephants in Africa … Malawi has emerged as a leader in African elephant conservation and park restoration. What’s been achieved at Nkhotakota in just 7 years is incredible.Rehoming...
by Marion Ellis | Oct 24, 2023 | Green Matters, Insightful Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters, Visionary Matters
Dereck and Beverly Joubert- A Love Story Dereck and Beverly Joubert are conservationists, filmmakers, and National Geographic Explorers at Large. They are considered one of the most hard-working and effective couples in the wildlife conservation world. They work...
by Marion Ellis | Sep 13, 2023 | Green Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters
African Parks, whose backers include the charitable foundations of Howard Buffett and the Walton Family, has bought a ranch in South Africa that houses about 2,000 endangered rhinos from a private breeder. Over the next decade, the rhinos will be reintroduced to...
by Marion Ellis | Mar 10, 2023 | Insightful Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters, Visionary Matters
Poetry is a great gift for us to connect with the natural world. If humanity is to move forward in a direction that is symbiotic with the natural world, we need to acknowledge our wild selves and integrate them into our daily lives, rather than having them trapped in...
by Marion Ellis | Jul 28, 2022 | Green Matters, Insightful Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters, Visionary Matters
Legendary explorer, Kingsley Holgate, has just led a South African-based team on epic nine-month, 35,000km journey from Cape Agulhas on the southern tip of Africa, to the Nordkapp in Norway’s Arctic Circle. Two years in the making, it is the first ‘Hot...
by Marion Ellis | Mar 31, 2022 | Heritage & History Matters, Insightful Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters
CELEBRATING OPENING UP The following African destinations have recently announced that fully vaccinated visitors are no longer required to undergo PCR testing prior to departure or on arrival: South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania,...