Top 10 Safari Vacations in Asia and the Far East | Active Vacations | iExplore - Nightly. The 10 best safaris in Africa - Telegraph - Nightly. What is so unusual about Duba is that these lions hunt by day – most prides throughout the continent hunt at night – and so visitors to Duba can watch marvellous set pieces as the lions and the buffalo take each other on in epic battles. I have been lucky enough to witness some of these battles which, from the initial stalking to the final kill and pride feeding, have run through an entire afternoon. Duba is a 65,000-acre concession in the far north of the Okavango Delta, with no access by road for most of the year.
It has been the bush home of the filmmakers and National Geographic explorers-in-residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert for close on a decade, and it is where they filmed Relentless Enemies, the story of the confrontations between lions and buffaloes. Their company, Great Plains, recently bought the camp, and they are currently revamping what is already an idyllic place.Graham Boynton The details Mundulea Reserve, Namibia Northern Kenya The details The Zambezi Valley, Zambia.
When is an artificial ecosystem no longer a fake? - opinion - 05 March 2014 - New Scientist - Nightly. REWILDING is all the rage in conservation circles. The idea is to return large areas of land to their natural state, rebuilding ecosystems and reintroducing species that have long since vanished. That includes those animals exterminated because they were inimical to the interests of human settlers or farmers, notably large predators like wolves and bears.
The problem, of course, is that many of these species are gone for good. So ingenious rewilders are starting to introduce alien species that they hope will do the same job as the ones that have gone the way of the dodo – or the moa-nalo, a giant Hawaiian duck quickly eaten to extinction once humans found these islands (see "Rewilding: Bring in the big beasts to fix ecosystems"). Depending on who you ask, this is either a brilliant idea that will restore the health of languishing environments, or foolhardy meddling that will cause innumerable headaches. All this is forcing enthusiasts to reconsider what "nature" really is. Recommended by. Wild Business | The home of "Wild Business": a consultancy that enables clients to benefit from, and restore, wild spaces - Nightly.
I think we should let elephants loose in Australia - environment - 01 February 2012 - New Scientist - Nightly. Ecologist David Bowman of the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, argues that large herbivores including elephants should be introduced to Australia to bring balance to a country ravaged by uncontrolled wildfires and non-native animals that have gone feral. Fellow ecologists including George Wilson of Australian National University in Canberra and Peter O'Brien of the University of Canberra say Bowman's proposal is preposterous, given the disastrous consequences of past animal introductions in Australia. Others, however, including Josh Donlan of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Tomás Carlo-Joglar of Pennsylvania State University in University Park say Bowman may be on to something. New Scientist talked to Bowman to find out more about his controversial plans. Australia has a notorious history of ecological problems caused by alien species.
Don't most ecologists see introducing more alien species to Australia as taboo? But why elephants? More From New Scientist. Scared to death: How intimidation changes ecosystems - life - 04 June 2013 - New Scientist - Nightly. Editorial "Developing a cartography of fear" IN JANUARY 1995, grey wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park, almost 70 years after they had been exterminated by an overenthusiastic predator-control programme. Over the next two winters, 31 animals captured in Canada were released into the park, fitted with radio collars so that rangers could track their whereabouts. But not all eyes were on the wolves; John Laundre was more interested in their main prey, elk. The large deer had run amok in the wolf-free decades, causing serious damage to the park's trees. He wanted to know how they would fare now that their old nemesis was back. By the second year, the answer was obvious.
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