Amazing video that’s bound to put a smile on your face and make you say, “Too cute!” Also bound to attract more people to the Knysna Elephant Park (KEP). Fiela is becoming a star. Video shot by Wild Imaging.
Full Story »Bird-watchers Identification Course (Novice and Intermediate)
FLIGHT FOR BIRDERS is a bird identification course for novice and intermediate bird-watchers. It will be held in KNYSNA/SEDGEFIELD on 23 and 24 May 2013. The “Flight for Birders” bird identification and conservation course by Anton Odendal will be presented in the Knysna area on 23 and 24 May 2013. The costs include the course [...]
Full Story »The Great Penguin Run Through Knysna
The Great Penguin Run to set world record… The African Penguin is one of only two seabirds that breeds along our coastline that is listed as globally Endangered by BirdLife International. Rather than do nothing about it, David Chamberlain (the Viidamago Foundation) is doing what he does best – running stupendous distances to raise awareness. [...]
Full Story »Bird Attack at Buffalo Bay
It was a glorious, if rather windy, Saturday afternoon when I went for a walk with Sheila, my wife, on the ‘wild side’ at Buffalo Bay (Buffelsbaai) in Knysna. That is to say, Goukamma Beach. You know where I mean – the stretch of sand where endangered African Black Oyster Catchers are supposed to be [...]
Full Story »Encourage Birdwatching Tourism
Turn your property into a birding destination… Recently had the privilege of attending a presentation by BirdLife South Africa’s regional conservation manager for the Western Cape, Dale Wright. The occasion was a meeting of the Lakes Bird Club here in Sedgefield, and, not to put too fine a point on it, Dale lowered the average [...]
Full Story »STOP Rhino Poaching (Part 2)
Read Part 1 here (if you haven’t already read it). I expected at any moment for his suffering to snap into a full blown rage, but it never came. I backed away slowly and he kept staggering in my direction, not showing any aggression, just one agonising effort after another. For a moment the thought [...]
Full Story »STOP Rhino Poaching (Part 1)
POACHED! – The Tragic Story of Geza the Rhino is told by the veterinarian who attended him, Dr. William Fowlds. Geza was a white rhino callously mutilated by poachers and left alive with his horns and part of his face hacked off with pangas. There have been almost 300 rhinos killed in South Africa this [...]
Full Story »Elephant Hunting
King of Spain, Juan Carlos elephant hunting in 2006 It has long been the preserve of the rich and famous to go and bag an elephant or two. Never mind the suffering. Balls to those who oppose the ‘hunt.’ Let’s just get on with the killing. And of course, Royalty is usually at the head [...]
Full Story »Photos of Beached Whale in Buffalo Bay
A dead Bryde whale was discovered 5km off the Knysna shore by NSRI yesterday afternoon. By evening, it had washed up on the rocks of the suburb Buffalo Bay, practically on the doorstep of the local caravan park. The first sign of the poor whale was its horrible smell. Tide was low enough so that [...]
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