black rhino, bush, wilderness, horn, ears, head

Rhinos making a welcome return…

Tanzania once had many black rhinos until rampant poaching during the 1960s and 1970s in the Serengeti, devastated the population. This was primarily driven by a desire for rhino horn, medicinally prized in parts of Asia. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) estimated only 133 black rhinos left by 2015. Then in…

elephants, garden, morning, trunk, tusks

Close Encounters of the Elephant kind

Having just installed a secret camera in the garden, September has proved to be an incredible month of up-close and personal visitations from our majestic elephants. Heavy footed creatures, trampling through the flower beds? Not at all; so light is their touch that the elephants barely make a sound on their way through, even the…