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founder's notecc Some might find the notion of human transience alarming, but I find it invigorating, uplifting, a source of purpose yyWhat a wonderful tale the giraffe tells us through the eyes and intelligent musings of biologist Rob Simmons {see Tall tales: or how the giraffe got its neck', page...
founder's noteC a mere fraction ofa second ago, when the great Pleistocene Ice Age was drawing to a close, a flight over northern Africa would have revealed a very different world j jWhat a wondrous thing, an elephant in mud. The joy is palpable on the face of the animal captured in Carlton Ward's...
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Editorial volume n numbers SEPTEMB ER 200 3IThe opportunity to reinforce, in the strongest terms, the global importance of conservation areas is now, here in Africa was asked on a recent radio interview for my mostmemorable wildlife moments. I'm not sure why, but . one memory that came surging to...
EditorialOCTOBERfter receiving reports about conflict between the trout-fishing industry and otters, we sent David L Rogers to investigate (see page 24). What he found makes disturbing reading. Otters - there are two species in South Africa, the spotted-necked and the Cape clawless - are seen as...
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U Yet again we are reminded (as if we need reminding) that nature is never the real threat to the world's wild places and wildlife ^ ^
Rainfall in many parts of Africa is at best unpredictable, often a case of none at all, not enough or too much. This is nothing new: historians tell...
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Japan may seem an unlikely place to find out about conservation in Africa, but that's what happened when, as a guest of Swiss watchmaker Rolex, i visited Tokyo...
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In a recent editorial 1 reported with some alarm that it was the South African government's intention to 'remove all obstacles to investment in the mining...
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I am delighted that in this issue we carry Ian McCallum's tribute to Dr Ian Player, for what a...
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In April 2006, we devoted an entire issue to Africa's elephants. At the time, the controversy was culling, particulariy in the context of its possible re-introduction in the Kruger...
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^ ( Africa, as poor as it might be economically, has a natural beauty and diversity of life and culture that engraves itself on the souls of all those who experience it ^ ^
In May this year, Africa Geographic will celebrate its 15th anniversary. I have been thinking about this a...
It is encouraging that combating deforestation is now firmly on the climate change agenda, but the road ahead is severely potholed
Mahale Mountains National Park, tucked Into a peninsula on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, is remote by any standard - motorboat, steamer...
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On the evening of writing this editorial, it had been a gloriously clear and sunny respite in the midst of a particularly soggy Western Cape winter. My family and I had...
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A conventional look at the wealth of Africa doesn't make for great reading. Using GDP as the measure, only four of Africa's 54 countries - Tunisia,...
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In 'Is ecotourism worling?' (see page 65) Ian Michler, who has been contributing to this magazine almost since its inception, asks some...
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I an [photographic] images influence the fate of our planet's natural wonders?' asls Christina Mittermeier in the preamble to Climate for...
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At the beginning of the 1980s, Africa's elephant population had peaked at about 1.3 million individuals. This was a triumph for the conservation...
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W* ell, it is the year 2006 and we face it with excitement, determined as always for Africa Geographic to portray this often confounding continent in a manner that focuses on the great promise...
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Contemplating the infinite nature of life, time and space is at once exhilarating and disturbing
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It is one of the grand ironies [of tourism] that destinations become the victims of their own success
I have been a consistent protagonist of tourism as a powerful force for good in Africa. Tourism brings people, comparatively rich ones, who spend money and who...
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The idea that you need to get rich first and then worry about your environment is not only untrue, it is dangerous ^ ^
I was intrigued, as I am sure most readers will be, to read Tim Davenport's account of seeing a hitherto 'unknown' species of monkey in Tanzania's Southern Highlands....
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I have often expressed my disappointment in the lack of cohesiveness in the global conservation community. The common goal is almost certainly the same - in some...
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If President Bongo's vision can be realised, it will be a conservation and ecotourism triumph not only for Gabon, but for Africa as a whole
We are so inured to bad news coming out of Africa that sometimes even those of us who are steadfast in our belief in the continent and its...
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^ ^ Tourism is unlikely to flourish until peace, political stability and respect for [the] individual become more widespread than they are at present ^ ^
I am writing this editorial from Durban where, for the past few days, I have been attending Indaba, the intemational tourism...
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