FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT CRAIG SHOLLEY AT [email protected] or 1-888-4WILDLIFESOUTH AFRICASouth Africa is commonly promoted as "The Rainbow Nation" and "A World In One Country", and with two oceans, subtropical savannah, arid…
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT CRAIG SHOLLEY AT [email protected] or 1-888-4WILDLIFEITINERARY:Monday, February 23TRAVELING TO TANZANIAToday board your international flight to Africa. There are a variety of ways to get to Arusha for the…
Saturday August 20 - Tuesday August 30, 2005Safari includes special briefings by AWF Conservation Program staff.FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT CRAIG SHOLLEY AT [email protected] or 1-888-4-WILDLIFEITINERARY:To Arrive August 20TRAVELING TO…
Want to go sailing on Lake Victoria, discover the scenic route to Murchison Falls, or dance the night away in Kampala, but haven't a clue who to call for advice? You’re in luck, because there’s a new smartphone application (app) to help you figure…
40-year-old Haoua Laraba sits outside her house in Tchamba Village, remembering a time when her days would start with a one-kilometer walk to fetch water from a nearby stream way before sunrise. By the time she walks back, the sun would be up…
After ICCN (the Congo government’s national park and nature conservation authority) officially reopened the Mikeno sector of Virunga National Park for tourism on May 1st, IGCP was invited to train the rangers who would be involved in the handling of…
As I mentioned in my earlier post, working with local communities is crucial in our Grevy’s zebra conservation efforts. We therefore work with local community scouts to monitor Grevy’s zebras and other wild animal numbers, human-wildlife…
It’s an uncharacteristically warm day high in the mountains on the Southern edge of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park here in Southern Uganda. At over 7,000 feet (2,300 meters), the chill during cloudless nights can have a bite, and foggy…
As I emerge from the scrubby undergrowth of the Park-to-farm transitional forest I am startled by Mama Christmas, and older female who has broken from the pack and is sitting stoically on top of a huge boulder overlooking the squawking birds and…
In my next life I'm going to be a gorilla tracker.Yesterday, I joined a group of trackers as they entered Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda to locate and monitor a group of mountain gorillas. The trip began at sunrise. I picked up Damascene…
Southern Senegal. We are on the border with Guinea, in a gallery forest, tracking chimps. We hear a branch break in the distance and move in that direction.
I am in a full sweat. It is hot, humid in the forest of Dindefelo Reserve…
Following ‘April the Giraffe’ Sponsorship, Toy and Baby Products Retailer Teams Up with African Conservation Organization to Educate Schools in Tanzania, UgandaAfrican Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has announced today, on World Giraffe Day, a new…
At the start of 2014, I was traveling in Dead Vlei, Namibia. When I was in the same location a year earlier, I didn't see any jackals bothering tourists (admittedly, that could have been random luck).Earlier this day, I saw a…