Another end-of-month snapshot of the highlights taken by our guides and guests shows that it is certainly ‘predator time’ across our portfolio, although, when isn’t it!?
Embedded in this week’s showreel is one image that could well have been taken in the Pantanal, in Brazil. I assure you it isn’t, but I challenge you to find it.
The other highlight is that our bridges, erected to get us across onto islands in Botswana’s Okavango, are being used extensively… by other residents!
The flood is already subsiding, making it a little easier to get around and just in time for our amphibious vehicles to arrive in Duba!
We have never had a more successful predator month, or even year, with the lions at ol Donyo Lodge now completely settled down. The Mara is the Mara, of course, and the Okavango’s swimming lions continue to enthral.
But perhaps what I am most pleased about this month is the news that the Painted Dogs we introduced in Zimbabwe this time last year are successfully running wild and have found themselves a den!
This is such great news because most reintroductions of wild dogs end very quickly, with the pack charging off, never to be seen again. Our false den built to stabilise them and the lack of harassment have paid off. So, they have chosen to den naturally in the ecosystem.
Sometimes all it takes is a nudge, a little helping hand, for a population, or even a species, to find its feet, recover, and thrive.
Each one of our camps is involved in conservation or community work locally, saving the planet, one day at a time.
