Africa Geographic Stories

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THE HORSE-GOATS OF THE UNGULATE WORLD

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Team Africa Geographic

Monday, 27 September 2021

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COUNTING THE CAPE PARROT

Written by Simon Espley. Photos by Marcus Westberg

Wednesday, 29 September 2021

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AFRICA'S ELEPHANT EDEN

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Team Africa Geographic

Thursday, 30 September 2021



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AVIAN APEX PREDATORS

by Team Africa Geographic, Monday, 4 October 2021



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THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS

Thursday, 7 October 2021



The rivers of Africa are her lifeblood. Streams trickle down the mountains and gradually unite to form some of the most spectacular and biodiverse waterways carving gorges across the continent. Nothing, not even geography, can hold them back as they tumble off cliffs and through dramatic ravines. As the largest waterfall in the world, Victoria Falls needs little introduction.

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CROSSING THE HUMAN-WILDLIFE BARRIER

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by Sam Turley | Monday, 11 October 2021

Forming a relationship with a wild animal (i.e. not a dog, cat or horse etc.), or crossing the human-wildlife barrier, requires tremendous patience, motivation, knowledge and expertise – not to mention consideration of a whole host of ethical concerns.

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SPEAR-WIELDING ANTELOPE



by Team Africa Geographic ! Monday, 18 October 2021



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AFRICA'S DEADLY BEAUTY



All felids are beautiful. It is a shared trait made even more appealing by the uncanny impression that they are fully aware of their own allure. However, with its luminous eyes, bold facial markings and dramatic ear tufts, the caracal is arguably Africa’s most exquisite cat. Our appreciation of the caracal’s beauty goes back thousands of years, and historians believe that caracals were of considerable religious significance in ancient Egyptian culture, with sculptures guarding the tombs of pharaohs.

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SOUTH AFRICA’S ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP

by

Team Africa Geographic

Wednesday, 17 November 2021



If the whole world is indeed a garden, as Frances Hodgson Burnett once wrote, then the Garden Route of South Africa was cultivated by a maverick horticulturist. In truth, the name is somewhat misleading because the Garden Route is about as far from the average garden as could conceivably be imagined. Here, myriad landscapes culminate in a dramatic meeting of mountains, gorges, forest and the Indian Ocean, interspersed by quaint towns and bustling beach cities. Not for nothing is this glorious stretch of coastline one of South Africa’s most popular tourism hotspots – it is a region best explored at leisure, taking every moment to appreciate nature in her wildest glory.

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A captive-bred rhino with its horns intact

Rhino horn trade - yes or no

Tony Carnie
Published on: 05 Jan 2022

Why did rhino poaching flare up so suddenly in South Africa just over a decade ago?

The answer to this question may provide some useful clues while searching for solutions to douse, or at least dampen, the recent poaching inferno that has swept over Southern Africa and extinguished the lives of close to ten thousand of these iconic animals. Rhino poaching is not new of course. For centuries, hunters and horn poachers of all hues have been slaughtering them across Africa and Asia – some to hang on the walls of lounges and trophy rooms, some to be carved into dagger handles or kept as status symbols, or simply crushed up for use in traditional Chinese medical potions.

Yet there was a critical point - in 2008 - when horn poaching literally exploded in South Africa - the last, large bastion of global rhino conservation.

Whoosh! It was almost as if a match had been tossed over a petrol-soaked land to ignite a massive bush fire that would spread out to engulf just about every piece of land in South Africa where rhinos had thrived for several decades in relative safety, in stark contrast to rhino populations in most other parts of Africa.


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