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 [...]
She wasn't the first leopard that I saw. That was an old female near the Katete river. But she was certainly the one I saw best, most and in a wonderful way. Alice, as she has been known to guides and visitors to the South [...]
In September 2018, we started to see crowned eagles around the entrance to the national park on a regular basis. Sightings had always been recorded in SLNP but occasional at best. To some extent, large eagles such as this are always a rarity as they [...]
It's no secret that the floodplains of Mana Pools National Park offer some of the most immersive wildlife safari anywhere in Africa. The density of game is incredible - though equal to other amazing areas - but the ability to walk among the big game [...]
Zambia's experience of COVID continues; cases are increasing slowly and active cases rise only very gradually as many are recovering well. 11 deaths have been recorded so far. Of course there is much speculation about whether the lack of testing is revealing only a fraction [...]
Winter is really setting in here in Zambia. Temperatures are falling to 12 or 13 degrees celsius overnight and morning safaris in open-topped vehicles are very cold! But the warm, sunny days are a blissful relief from the hot, sticky days of March and April. [...]
It's hard to imagine that anything could knock COVID-19 off the top of the news headlines. Last week, however, awful news from Minneapolis achieved this, for all the wrong reasons. The death of George Floyd, apparently at the hands of State Police, seems all the [...]
