Conservation and Tourism go hand in hand; conservation efforts protect the wildlife and natural places that tourists wish to visit...and tourism provides the justification and funding for conserving wild areas. But COVID which has entirely frozen the tourism and travel industry, has heaped massive challenges [...]
It's been a while since I wrote an update from Zambia. Apologies for my silence. In part this is due to being busy with photoshoots (for local companies and NGOs), in part due to a wonderful walking expedition that I joined (follow my Instagram from [...]
Greetings from Zambia, where the weather gods have certainly decided that winter has come to an end! Temperatures by day are creeping into the high 30s and night-times are warmer, requiring a blanket only in the early hours of the morning. It seems ridiculous to [...]
Greetings from the Luangwa Valley. As always, this blog comes with my best wishes and the sincere hope that you and your families are well. From here, I watch the world news with my guests in mind as countries open up more, or conversely re-enter [...]
A busy week has allowed for less time in my usual areas of the South Luangwa. I did spent a couple of mornings on safari (sightings to follow at the end of this blog) but before that, I had a number of photoshoot assignments and [...]
Incredibly, another week has passed us by and I find myself writing my weekly virtual safari update... As always, this comes to you with my best wishes and hope that you and yours are well physically and mentally during this most challenging time. Zambia is [...]
It's hard to believe that we are now in July. Time is a very odd thing; on the one hand, time has passed slowly and 2020 seems already to have lasted a lifetime, but equally half the year has gone by and I'm not sure [...]
We have had an unusual week of warm and cloudy weather, culminating with a short rain shower on the 30th June! Not unprecedented but certainly unusual for this time of the year. Fortunately, it was far too little to do any damage to the roads [...]
COVID-19 is affecting nearly every part of our planet. Even nature, which cannot contract COVID, is impacted by the loss of livelihoods in wildlife areas and resultant poaching pressure. Conservation South Luangwa holds the line and provides law enforcement support to the Department for National [...]
Another week has gone by with the world learning more and more about COVID-19. One thing that seems sure is that we will be living with it for some time to come. Nations are managing to reduce the infection rate to very low, and keeping [...]
