Conservation & Wildlife
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Tour operators and travel agents are reporting a trend indicating that people are booking higher value trips for longer periods of time. The new SkySafari East Africa itinerary offers the perfect solution for a longer exceptional holiday that can be enjoyed as a couple or as a take-over for a multi-generational family looking to ma… read more
Uganda President HE General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced that Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary welcomed its newest member to the Uganda rhino family last week. He said on his facebook wall:
“Today morning, Rhino Fund Uganda received a new-born calf. Its mother is called Uhuru. This birth took place at Uganda’s Rhino Sanctuary in Naka… read more
Foreign visitors will pay more during game drives in Serengeti and Nyerere national parks from July next year. The new fee structure announced by the ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism will combine park entry fee and concession fees.
The substantial increase in the fees will become effective on July 1, next year, the m… read more
Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport welcomed a black impala lamb to its local herd. The new lamb is the first of its kind to be born within the airport’s parameters.
Impalas are one of the most common antelope found in Southern Africa but a black lamb is quite a rarity.
The black colour is a genetic mut… read more
More than 8 000 local people have visited Lake Malawi National Park since last year, the figure which the Department of Parks and Wildlife has said is the highest in a decade. Previously, not more than 3 000 local tourists visited the park.
Speaking on Wednesday the department Upper Shire Division manager, McPhillip Mwithokom… read more
PROSPECTS of Tanzania, in particular the Serengeti National Park to get a huge number of tourists is increasingly large as the park grabs headlines as the second preferred destination for 2021.
Being only second to Maldives, Serengeti National Park has been singled out by global agents of an internationally renowned tr… read more
Despite the negative impacts stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, domestic tourism has been reported to have picked up with more locals visiting the Etosha National Park compared to international tourists.
Etosha is one of the largest national parks in Africa, one of the oldest, and is considered as Namibia's flagship tourist destin… read more
It’s always a wonderful experience to see wild animals
with their babies. The Kruger National Park is currently teeming with
newborns and visitors have been sharing sweet moments between fierce
predators and their little bundles.
Among them is a hyena mother, trying to take a nap while her adorable
cubs climb and clamber all over… read more
After years of rehabilitation at the Zululand Rhino Orphanage, rhinos Mpilo and Makhosi were successfully released into their new, wild home.
‘Mpilo and Makhosi who were both rehabilitated at the Zululand Rhino Orphanage since they were young calves are a conservation success story, and now, they will finally go back into the wild a… read more
Following devastating pictures of a malnourished male lion and dozens of underfed animals at a zoo in Nigeria which got the internet buzzing, a None Governmental Organisation (NGO), Wildlife Charity has begun a rescue mission to save the life of the severely starved lion after a visitor discovered it.
This comes as the organisation … read more