Rwanda has a dark history with a civil war in 1991 and the tragedy of the 1994 genocide. Despite this, Rwanda appears to be a country...

It was a frosty early morning and the sun was yet to peek its head above the the Waterberg mountains. We left Marataba Safari Lodge...

The Augrabies Falls National Park or “place of the Great Noise” is a 55,000 hectare protected area surrounding the Orange River. The...

Elephants are by far my favourite animal. They are the reason I left England and my family behind and moved to the African bush to work...

African rock pythons can reach a length of five to six metres. Although they are not venomous they can deliver a nasty bite and hold...

Thanks to some recent rain the Waterberg is lush, green, the rivers full and the dams overflowing. Last week the Marataba section of the...

December and January are famous in the South African bush for the birthing period. Impala, wildebeest, hartebeest and warthogs are just a...

It was late afternoon and I had been catching glimpses of a mother leopard and her three cubs in the long reeds for about 20 minutes. My...

As we near the end of the dry season in the Waterberg many of the watering holes have dried up. Consequently animals are forced along the...

It has now been six months since we started working to familiarise a female leopard and her 3 cubs with game drive vehicles. All three...

Much to the rangers’ dismay the lion sightings had been very quiet for several days. Some nights we would hear them calling close to the...

For the past few months we have suspected that one of the central pride lionesses had cubs. She is most commonly seen with two other...

The Waterberg, South Africa, is not famous for leopard sightings. Sightings are generally few and even then are generally just a blur of...

My morning started at 4am. The cold morning air was broken by the roaring of lions just outside of camp. The black backed jackals were...

The Kruger National Park, South Africa, is the size of Switzerland. The majority of roads are tarred and any member of the public can...

To begin with it, it is worth mentioning that canoeing down the Zambezi River is a little more than an adrenaline rush. Around every...