A leopard sighting in the African bush is one of the most thrilling things that can happen to anyone with half an ounce of wildness in her soul. Seeing car tracks left off-road by some selfish sonofabitch is probably one of the worst.
By Roxanne Reid
A leopard sighting in the African bush is one of the most thrilling things that can happen to anyone with half an ounce of wildness in her soul. Seeing car tracks left off-road by some selfish sonofabitch is probably one of the worst.
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By Roxanne Reid What do the Queen of England and film buffs like Alfred Hitchcock, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlize Theron have in common? They’ve all visited Livingstone in Zambia to gaze upon one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Victoria Falls. 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. I think I have found what I’m looking for. Mkhambathi Nature Reserve on the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast is one of the most photogenic, pristine and priceless places I have been on my Year in the Wild, says guest blogger Scott Ramsay. By Roxanne Reid In an earlier blog, Kgalagadi developments: have your say, I chuntered on about the proposed developments in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (KTP). I laid out my concerns regarding roads, refuse, sewage, and the quality and supply of water, saying these should be addressed before any further developments were considered. On our trip to the park in May, the validity of these concerns was amply demonstrated. South Africa lost 80 rhinos to poachers in the first two months of 2012. [By 5 April it was 159.] At this rate, we may lose 600 this year - significantly up from 13 just five years ago. The debate over how best to combat this butchery rages on. But how much of the outrage is sentiment and how much is emotion that translates into useful action? Read what the African Conservation Trust's top man has to say. By Roxanne Reid Developments are in the wind at the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the Northern Cape, South Africa. If you love that place as much as I do, you need to know about them so you can have your say and make your voice heard in the public participation process currently under way. By Roxanne Reid Travel magazines are fond of producing Top 10 or Top 5 lists of this or that. Following a journey from Middelburg in Mpumalanga to Pongola in KwaZulu-Natal along the N2, here’s my list of the top 5 worst towns and roads in South Africa. It wasn’t even a challenge. |
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