Collaring some great food and wine in Kwazulu-Natal
Our pack have been on the move almost constantly since April. Jeremy meandered around KZN, Jo’burg and the Lowveld, while Emma explored new areas of Zambia and caught up with all the travel professionals at Indaba, World Travel Market Africa and We Are Africa. In…
November – update from KZN
Jeremy received this month’s update from Cole Du Plessis of the EWT – it continues the saga of the wild dog population in KZN: “November has been a fruitful month in maintaining and expanding South Africa’s wild dog metapopulation. The greatest highlight of all was…
Painted Wolf update from the field
Earlier this month, Jeremy recieved an email from Cole Du Plessis of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, giving an update on his work in the field with African wild dogs (he refers to them throughout as Painted Wolves which we can’t fault). Cole’s report Early in…
Dogged pursuits in KZN – new ranges
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) in collaboration with its partners, released a pack of five African Wild Dogs onto Somkhanda Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday 29 November 2014. Northern KZN is a Wild Dog conservation stronghold. The pack comprised two males originating from…
Dogged pursuits in Kwazulu Natal – October and November news
David Marneweck from the Endangered Wildlife Trust sent us this update on the wild dogs in KwaZulu Natal The last few weeks on the project have been filled with a number of wild dog sightings, both opportunistically and at call ups for collaring. Recently in…
Dogged pursuits in Kwazulu Natal – an update from the field
We just received an email update from Dave Marneweck, KwaZulu-Natal Project Field Officer at the Endangered Wildlife Trust. He attached some great photos of the Wild Dogs he works with and vividly brought to life, the comings and goings of the individuals he knows. Here…
Wild Dog Diaries (69) Brendan Whittington-Jones
Country music is littered with cheesy love songs. Songs of broken hearts and perseverance really do seem to be the backbone of most albums (I’ll also acknowledge other key themes such as bars and trucks). There are however some rather more raw alternatives to those…