Recently I was out and about in the bush, just enjoying an opportunity to keep my finger on the pulse of what’s going on. With the hot dry season in full swing, the obvious place to visit to get the lowdown during lockdown is, of course, the local waterhole.

The infamous Grumeti River is a lifeline that cuts through the incredible Serengeti scenery from the north east of the national park and west to Lake Victoria.

They say that the small beating of a butterfly’s wings can cause hurricanes on the other side of the world. But what would happen if that beat suddenly stopped? Would chaos unfold? Would life, as we know it carry on? Or would the Butterfly Effect transpire? 

Can you imagine living in a rural community next to a wildlife reserve and growing up with a fear of dangerous animals? That’s the reality for many and the reason why the Malilangwe Neighbour Outreach Programme has several initiatives in place to offer development to the communities and bring awareness to conservation.

The humidity changes after a good downpour of rain and this is the best time for flying termites, known as alates, to wing their way out of the nest and go in search of a mate and a nesting spot.

Deceit, deception and death! That sounds rather dramatic as an opening for a story on birds, but it is shockingly true, and brood parasitism in birds is not common knowledge so let me tell you a little about it.

The beauty of nature is all around us, yet all too often we go racing off, far and wide, to see this beauty.

My husband and I have a border collie dog that we absolutely adore (obviously). I have always been fascinated by ethology (the study of animal behaviour) and I spend a lot of time observing and learning more about this. I noticed that whenever I sneezed Jagger (our dog) would came rushing over to me with…

The shrill call of cicada males as a result of contractions of sound-producing organs, the tymbals, was getting much louder which is perhaps the most characteristic feature of a hot drowsy day in Africa.

Recently I was out and about in the bush, just enjoying an opportunity to keep my finger on the pulse of what’s going on. With the hot dry season in full swing, the obvious place to visit to get the lowdown during lockdown is, of course, the local waterhole.

The infamous Grumeti River is a lifeline that cuts through the incredible Serengeti scenery from the north east of the national park and west to Lake Victoria.

It’s that time of year again where the first summer rains have fallen here at Singita Sabi Sand, and the bush has come to life. It is a favourite time of year for many, including myself, and life is truly never more abundant and evident than now after the start of the rains.

What a pleasant summer it has been so far. The late summer of 2020 brought about cooler temperatures with a larger amount of rainfall. This was something that we all welcomed with opened arms.

The meaning of the term Hypothesis is (in a simple term) an idea that one can test through experimentation, or a guess rather than a known theory.

They say that the small beating of a butterfly’s wings can cause hurricanes on the other side of the world. But what would happen if that beat suddenly stopped? Would chaos unfold? Would life, as we know it carry on? Or would the Butterfly Effect transpire?