Two-year-old Brin has recently joined the CapeNature team. Her job is to help conserve the critically endangered geometric tortoise. She’s the first conservation dog to do this work in South Africa.
By Roxanne Reid
Two-year-old Brin has recently joined the CapeNature team. Her job is to help conserve the critically endangered geometric tortoise. She’s the first conservation dog to do this work in South Africa.
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By Roxanne Reid
The global march against canned lion hunting took place in some 60 cities across the world on 15 March 2014. The aim was to raise awareness and educate people about the horrors of canned lions – not just the way they die but they way they are forced to live before they are killed. By Roxanne Reid If you haven’t already read about Melissa Bachman and the furore caused by her shooting a lion in South Africa recently – and bragging about it on social media – then you’re living under a rock and you really should get out more. Let me explain why I'm grateful to Melissa Bachman – and you should be too. By Roxanne Reid
What's your view of human interaction with wild animals? Are walking with lions, elephant-back safaris, cuddling cheetah cubs and so acceptable or not? Watch this video and tell us: what's your view? By Roxanne Reid ‘The carcass of the poached rhino was about a week old when the Vietnamese delegation saw it in a South African wildlife park. There was a strong smell of rot, and animals had scavenged most of the meat. Rangers found the bullet that killed it by scouring the ground with a metal detector. The rhino horn was gone, hacked off its snout.’ By Roxanne Reid Leopards may not need ID photos for a passport, but a project initiated by Dr Matthew Schurch is determined to identify leopards through photos anyway. At first the focus is on the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and Augrabies Falls National Park. I asked him the how, what and why, and to share some of his ID photos. By Roxanne Reid Following my blog Good, bad or ugly? Riverbed Cycle Challenge, Kgalagadi, and a posting on the SANParks Forum about the proposed event, things got well and truly riled up. Many regular visitors to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park couldn’t believe that the proposed 155km cycle event down the riverbed from Union’s End to Nossob wasn’t just a late April fool’s joke. By Roxanne Reid The Kalahari. It’s vast and ageless, a semi-desert of photogenic red dunes and star-crammed skies where African animals run wild. Be warned: visit it once and it may capture your heart forever. That's certainly what happened to me, and now you can read about it in my new book. By Roxanne Reid In 2009 In Search of the African Wild Dog was published, full of beautiful photos and thoughtful text by this week’s guest bloggers Roger and Pat de la Harpe. Then the Endangered Wildlife Trust suggested they should do a book on lions, ‘the next big conservation issue’. That lion book has hit book shelves across South Africa. The Grade 7 class from the Zenzeleni Waldorf School in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, recently enjoyed a four-day educational camp in the Cederberg with the Cape Leopard Trust. The camps explore themes such as biodiversity, leopard biology, animal tracking, geology, rock art, astronomy and survival skills. Guest blogger, Elizabeth Martins is Education and Outreach Co-ordinator for the Cape Leopard Trust. She tells us more. |
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