Do elephants need tusks? It is a big question. Given the fact that they have them would suggest that they do have a purpose and therefore that life without them may be harder. In Gorogosa national park in Mozambique, tuskless females became more common after ivory poaching become common during their 15 year civil war. …...

Back in 2019, the conservative government passed a law banning the import of trophies from animals hunted abroad. Despite their status, various wild species are hunted in the wild and in theory this law would stop this. Now, you might notice that it is now almost 2022, so what happened? Well it was announced in …...

Hello everyone! We survive So, the website was hacked. Nothing was stolen, from what I was told they were just able to delete the website. Thankfully we back up, so we have survived. We have added a significant extra layer of protection which should make it impossible for the same problem to arise (it had …...

Apologies for the pause in articles going up, I have been concentrating on creating a wildlife sightings board. This should be able to go up in the next week or so. Obviously, we will hide any sightings that become necessary if poaching becomes an issue once again. The idea of the Sightings map, is to …...

Between the sudden loss of virtually all tourists, and the removal of game rangers and wildlife guides, there has been an alarming spike in the amount of poaching that has been going on in Mozambique (among other destinations). One of the problems with covid-19 is it has essentially ended much of the formal economy. For a …...

Lions are amazing animals to encounter while you are on holiday. They are fascinating animals and given their ability to hunt they hold a certain danger which we find exciting. But what about those people who live alongside Lions all year long?

As is well known globally, the Kruger National Park in South Africa has had a very serious problem with rhino poaching over the last decade or so. A significant proportion of the remaining wild white rhinos live with in the Kruger so it is not a surprise that this is where much of the white …...

In Africa it is becoming increasingly common for national parks to be declared on both sides of a border. This allows the protected area to be vastly larger than either country could succeed in, on its own. This is important because many of the mammals that live in Africa need a lot of space and …...

Size [usr 4.5] Facilities [usr 5] Range of animals [usr 5] Road quality [usr 4.5] Wildness [usr 3.5] Kruger is one of the few national parks in the world that is large enough to have a sizeable population for some of its rarer animals. It is also part of the Limpopo transfrontier park which includes the Limpopo park in Mozambique, …...