Is Planet Earth Live?
There has been a bit of an outcry over the BBC’s new programme now screening in the UK, Planet Earth Live. The programme purports to be “the ultimate live global wildlife drama” with “real animals, real lives, in real time”. In the first programme, there were only about 20 or so minutes of live material with the two main presenters, Julia Bradbury and Richard Hammond speaking to camera and some blurred night shots of buffalos on the Masai Mara in Africa.
South African Flora on display at Chelsea Flower Show
The Chelsea Flower Show is being held in London from 22nd – 26th May. This will be the 37th year that South Africa has exhibited at the show, and the design, by David Davidson and Ray Hudson, will showcase the country’s diverse floral heritage. Visitors will be “taken across the country and experience the different destinations that feature aspects of the South African cultural heritage”.
Who says what about travel…?
It seems that everybody has something to say about travelling! Some people seem to think that humans need to travel to enjoy life to the full, others that travel gives knowledge and wisdom, and there are more that believe travel is only travel if you really experience the place that you’re going to.
Kariega Game Reserve Volunteer Programme : March 2012 update
This past month has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
As many of you will already know, on the 2nd of March Kariega Game Reserve was subjected to a vicious rhino poaching attack. One male rhino died on the scene, and the two surviving rhinos sustained horrific injuries. Themba and Thandi, as they were later named, were 3 and 6 years respectively. While Thandi (meaning ‘courage’) has improved with each weeks treatment, Themba (meaning ‘hope’) hovered between good and bad as a borderline case before dying on the 25th March.
Themba had more internal damage than Thandi, due to the position in which he was lying during the attack. His face was not the underlying cause in his death, but rather tissue damage and infection in his leg injury. Data gathered both during and after his 22 day fight for survival will be valuable to any future poaching survivors, as we now have a better understanding as to what may be happening under the 2cm thick skin, which makes visible clues difficult to see.
Acrostic of the Month – Conservation!
Conservation means the act of preserving, guarding or protecting. Worldwide Experience helps hundreds of people every year to realise their dreams of helping in conservation projects whether working with animals or communities in Africa and elsewhere…
Kariega rhinos: A tragic turn of events…
Dr Will Fowlds and the team at Kariega have been fighting hard to save the lives of two rhinos – Themba and Thandi – after they were brutally attacked by poachers for their horns at the beginning of March. Here, the story takes a terribly sad turn for Themba…
These are copies of the the actual emails sent from Kariega by Will Fowlds…
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