Where wild dogs tree leopards, lion cubs play with pangolins and aardvarks rule the night… April/May can be a magical time in the Kalahari. This year, unseasonal rains have carpeted the apricot-colored desert sands of Tswalu Kalahari with wide swathes of wild yellow sunflowers and waving plumes of silvery grasses on which springboks pronk and… More »
The Chalo Africa Diary
Press Release: Chalo Africa Hosts Fundraiser for Wildlife Conservation in India & Africa
100% of proceeds from the auction to be donated to Wildlife S.O.S. in India & the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust in Zimbabwe. New Delhi, India – December 11, 2016 Over 100 people attended “Under a Baobab Tree”, a cocktail and wildlife photography auction, held in support of two non-profits focussing on wildlife and wilderness conservation in… More »
Chinko’s Magical Kingdom: African Parks Update
Here is a beautiful update shared by African Parks, who have been managing Chinko Nature Reserve in CAR since 2014. Chinko Nature Reserve Deep in the Central African Republic (CAR) lies an unknown wildlife refuge. Few have heard of Chinko, a unique area that spans a vast 17,600 km2 where savannah and tropical forest collide. These mixed… More »
Rocking Baobabs – A Conservation Effort by the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust, Zimbabwe
Over the last few years, the number of Baobabs that have been felled by elephants in Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe’s second largest national park, has increased at an alarming rate. Unless steps are taken to prevent this, almost all Baobab trees near or along the Runde River will be a part of history. Introduction to… More »
Uganda Trip Report: The Mountains of the Moon and the Kazinga Channel (Part 2)
Read Part 1 of Tanvi’s trip report — Chimp Tracking in Kibale National Park — here. Imagine a land where mountains reach up and touch the stars, and the stars, they fall softly upon the earth, and the earth dissolves into shimmering lakes, reflecting the poetry that is this universe. Sometimes you don’t have to… More »
Uganda Trip Report: Chimp Tracking in Kibale Forest (Part 1)
Day 1: Hello Entebbe! The captain of the Kenya Airways flight announces that we will be shortly descending into Entebbe. I eagerly look out of the window and spot the shimmering blue waters of Lake Victoria. In the distance is the shoreline: rolling green hills speckled with the sloping red-tile roofs. We land on the… More »