What do Pyramid Schemes and intensively breeding and manipulating new wildlife colour variants and other unnatural freakish animals have in…
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People can be quite lazy about answering letters. Brigitte Bardot for instance. I wrote to her once. That delectable, pouting…
Each profession has a set of fundamental goals. Doctors try to prevent sickness and heal people, engineers design and build,…
Whereas I understand that this too is driven by the profit motive, with the landowner hoping that there will be a demand for colour variants in the future (from hunters – mostly foreign who can afford them?), I am at odds with meddling with the Creator’s handiwork. I believe that ultimately it will have very negative effects on the genetic health of the animals being manipulated. In the crop and livestock farming world there is mounting evidence of the disastrous effects that are resulting from genetic modification – both to the species themselves and to end consumers
A number of years ago this got me thinking and I did some “survival” hunting. This involved going out into the bush with only my bow, some basic survival tools, and a little food to start off with, for an extended period of time (5-10 days). Once my food and water ran out I would then be forced to live off what nature provided.
Vultures, by any stretch of the imagination, cannot be regarded as good-looking creatures – but they do play a vital…
They are called the B’aka and they live in the tropical jungles of West Africa, mostly in the Congo. They…
When the Excrement Hits the Oscillation. This is an expression that implies a crisis situation – a worst-case scenario. Professionals…
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When visiting Humani in the Savé Conservancy, one can be assured of being introduced to the newest member of the Humani clan. This extraordinary new addition is an orphan rhino calf named Jimmy, who is being raised by Anne Whittall. When Jimmy arrived at the Humani homestead, weak and in a generally sorry state, Anne was forced to play the part of foster mother rhino. Many will agree that there could be no one better for the role.
As far as the eye could see, in their thousands and tens of thousands, the wildebeest came. Stringing down from…