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Bringing Cheetahs to Malawi

As published in Africa Geographic on 13 December 2019 (www.africageographic.com) A total of 5,645 kilometres… That is 845 km more than the distance across the United States of America, 2,500 km further when travelling east to west across Australia, and 2,845 km more than the distance across South Africa. That distance does not even count all the little trips in between, including the time … Read More Bringing Cheetahs to Malawi

A Story of Cats and Dogs

As published on Sapmok.com “Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaants ingonyama bagithi baba” It is 3:45 in the morning, the sun has not even thought about rising, yet my alarm is blaring, and I cannot help but smile (after first, in a half-awake frenzy, find my phone and shut off the alarm).  For those of you who are not fluent in Zulu the above is from the intro of … Read More A Story of Cats and Dogs

Back into the wild… and with boyfriends.

African wild dogs, also called painted wolves or painted dogs, are the second most endangered carnivore in all of Africa (behind the Ethiopian wolf). Today, there are somewhere around 6,000 wild dogs left in fewer than 25 countries. One of the causes of the rapid decline in population numbers is disease, but another reason is the increasing number of conflicts between humans and wild … Read More Back into the wild… and with boyfriends.