A Closer Look - Young Chimp
Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
by Michael Lorentz
Hiking in the Mahale Mountains last February, which is arguably one of the best places in the world to see wild-living chimpanzees, we spent an hour with the ‘M Group’, watching them forage and play. This group of about sixty chimps has been the focus of an on-going study of chimp behaviour by Japanese Researchers since 1964. I was particularly taken by the intensity of this young chimp as he studied his floral snack.
by Richard Coke
Sometimes, even after years of guiding, you see a sight so strange that you just can’t explain it.
I’m still puzzling over something I saw on my last safari.
by Michael Lorentz
The short grass plains of the Serengeti are the best grazing in Africa. They’re the foodbasket of the migration: the verdant grass grows on rich soil laid down by volcanic ash.
Right now, the wildebeest are dropping their calves en masse, thousands of them. There’s something very moving about sitting in the middle of these plains watching life begin.
by Sandor Carter
There is always a wonderful sense of trepidation when you set out on a new adventure, the anticipation of what might be. Those feelings and more were on high alert as we motored slowly through a light fog, along the coast of Barter Island in search of the world’s largest land carnivore and the apex Arctic predator, Ursus Maritimus, the polar bear.
Passage to Africa, in association with The Bushcamps Company, offers the unique opportunity to explore the dramatic landscapes of South Luangwa National Park in the expert company of Michael Lorentz, whose knowledge of the wilds is surpassed only by his infectious passion to share it with those he guides through the depths of the African wilderness.
Only 100 kilometres south of where Henry Morton Stanley uttered the immortal words, “Dr. Livingstone I presume” sits the Mahale Mountains National Park. Covering an area of 1,613 square kilometres, the park includes a vast stretch of tropical forest that meets the pale, sandy shores and clear waters of Lake Tanganyika in far western Tanzania. Herein, lays a rare opportunity to combine intense safari with an exceptional beach holiday, on the shores of the longest and second deepest fresh water lake in the world.
Love, Life & Elephants: An African Love Story
by Daphne Sheldrick
Released in the United Kingdom March 1, 2012
To be released in the United States on May 08, 2012
Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya’s rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death.
The Boat House
with Chef Bruce Robertson
Scarborough is the last settlement before the Cape of Good Hope and is surrounded by nature reserve, with the Cape Peninsula National Park to the south and Baskloof Nature Reserve rising on the steep Fynbos inclines behind.
Deep in the dense forests of western Tanzania, in the Mahale Mountains National Park, where majestic 8,000 foot mountains slope down to the white sands of one of the world’s greatest lakes, is Greystoke Mahale.
Rhino Rescue Project
In our past newsletters the conservation pieces shared devastation and loss with regards to the Rhino's being lost in South Africa and the elephants being poached in Cameroon.
This week we would like to highlight the RHINO RESCUE PROJECT that is working hard to find a solution. Proactive and not reactive.
by Michael Lorentz
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Northern Kenya
There is something timeless about this haughty bull gliding across the African savannah as only a giraffe can. It was late afternoon as I travelled through the Conservancy, which is part of the Laikipia ecosystem.