African wild dogs were once found across Africa, but today they exist in mere pockets of endangered packs. In areas such as the Selinda and Okavango in Botswana and Maasai…
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A childhood initiation into the African wild… A long time ago, humans were on a great voyage, crossing countries and continents and ever-changing habitats: deserts, jungles, snowy peaks, savannahs, rivers……
“Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee Alchemy is defined as a seemingly magical process of…
Last week, I wrote about our dramatic journey while filming Okavango, and being based at Duba Plains Camp in Botswana. Those who downloaded a copy of Chapter 1 will not…
Last week I wrote, and declared, no more use of ‘the C word.’ So I’ll stick to that. But for many of us now Conservation is everything. For the first time…
At Great Plains Conservation we love to surprise you. In a good way! A bush dinner, a hand made gift, small things to make your safari a momentous experience. I…
Becoming a More Conscious Traveller… Travelling is how we build our understanding of and compassion for the world. Our desire is to protect it. It’s what enables us to feel…
The land of no seasons If you live on the equator or are simply visiting say, Kenya, you might notice that the days and nights are of equal length. The…
There are unwritten rules we follow in life, even more so when exploring the swampy depths of a delta, filming wild elephants and roaming lion prides, wading closer and closer….
Grace, beauty, spirit, freedom… Walking into the horse stables at ol Donyo Lodge is like entering a Buddhist monastery. But instead of a remote mountain top in Tibet, we’re in…
