African Wildlife
African Wildlife
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Ecotourism And Wildlife Travel
SCROLL DOWN FOR DESTINATION SUGGESTIONS! Wildife ecotourism can be local or exotic, and as complicated as an organized African safari, or as simple as driving to a nearby town to…
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Classic East African Ecotourism
Ecotourism is a big business in both Kenya and Tanzania, two former British colonies on the East Coast of Africa. The two nations share the vast (12,000 square mile, or…
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Biologist Enters the Fashion Field In A Bid to Save Wild Leopards
Veteran field biologist Tristan Dickerson is most at home tracking leopards through the rugged bush spanning the remote northern Zululand Area of KwaZulu Natal, in his native South Africa. But…
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Ants Versus Elephants
It is a fairly perfect example of what scientists call symbiosis: A species of acacia tree on the plains of East Africa provides shelter and food to a species of…
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Greater Bamboo Lemur
The Island of Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa, is home to dozens of species of lemurs—and almost all of them are disappearing very quickly due to habitat loss…
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Farm Raised Tigers?
For all we know, they do taste like chicken. Fortunately, however, the World Bank has nixed a plan to raise tigers on farms so that wealthy people in Asia can…
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How Long Do Elephants Live?
The international wildlife photographer known as Primrose Girl told us this story about the elephant pictured at left, which she photographed in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Park: [ez-toc] “This wonderful…
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