International education and research in ecology and conservation, wildlife tracking, and human culture

It takes a village to medicate an elephant

To watch the 3 minute YouTube video that accompanies this story, scroll down to the link at the bottom. We pulled in to Dundee Dam with our students, FGASA Level 1 guide trainees from all over the world, to view a hippo cow and calf that were in thewater. Across the dam wall, we saw […]

Trailing, and an encounter with an elephant

Trailing, and an encounter with an elephant – UCONN Aug 2015 group We walked out of camp and into the South African sunrise. I stepped over the tracks of three big dugga boys (Cape buffalo bulls) who had recently headed in the direction that Lee had taken with the other students, and silently said a […]