I had heard three things about camels: 1. Riding one is like being on a mechanical bull; 2. They are mean spirited; and 3. They spit green vomit at people. So, when the camel lifted his furry upper lip and came towards my arm with his huge, brown-stained teeth, my first response was to yell, …
About Lori Robinson
Thirty years of travelling to and living in 11 African countries – from my first trip to southern Africa on assignment as a fashion model in 1984 to my recent role as Africa Adventures Specialist in East Africa for the Jane Goodall Institute – has nourished my lifelong passion for the natural world. In 2009 I sold my big house and most of my stuff so I could live more simply. When I'm not traveling in Africa.... I'm based in a small cabin in the Teton National Forest in Moose, Wyoming.
New facts debunk common beliefs about rhino poaching
Rhino horn poaching in Africa is at an all-time high. The recent wave of rhino poaching (up 3,346% since 2007) has erased decades of gains in African rhino conservation efforts, and put rhinos on the fast track to extinction. At one point, hundreds of thousands of black and white rhinos roamed the African continent, but …
Richard Turere: Young Wildlife Hero
Richard Turere hates African lions, yet this thirteen-year-old Kenyan has become one of the wildlife heroes protecting African lions. Like most village boys his age, Richard is responsible for safeguarding his family’s livestock. “We are enemies, “ he says about the large-cat predators who come out of the nearby Nairobi National Park to prey on cows, goats …
Life in the Masai Mara: Talking to Guide Book Authors
Last February while in the Masai Mara, I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Vicki and Adam Scott Kennedy, the authors of the just released African safari books: Animals of the Masai Mara, and Birds of the Masai Mara. Many people, including myself, dream of living and working in the African bush. But few people make it …
In a Chimp’s World
We have been walking for only 10 minutes when a deafening scream silences the chirping, buzzing and other forest sounds that surround us. The calls act as beacons. As does the walky-talky Emmiti, our guide, carries to communicate with other trackers who set out before dawn to locate where the chimpanzees bedded down the previous …
An African Love Story
Blogger Lori Robinson so enjoyed the warm, passionate autobiography of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, founder of the David Sheldrick Elephant Trust in Kenya, that she reviews it here for you. An African Love Story is Kenya-born Daphne Sheldrick’s memoir about how love for her country, animals and men, including her soul mate, would eventually define and focus …
Big Five vs birds
Two kinds of people sign up for African safaris. Most, myself included, want to see the Big Five – lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant. The other people are the birders. So when my birder father announces he wants to join me on a trip to Botswana I have planned for myself, I clarify, ‘This …
Visiting Save the Elephants in Kenya
The gunshot makes no sound. I’m only sure it’s been fired when the matriarch’s knees buckle under the weight of her one and a half-ton elephant mass. “In this kind of operation every minute matters,” the vet tells us. “No matter how many times we’ve done this, things can go wrong,” explains Iain Douglas- Hamilton, …
A must-do encounter with chimpanzees
Nani, one of the lowest-ranking chimps at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary, waddles towards me with her arms stretched to the sky in a child’s ‘pick-me-up’ gesture. She climbs me as if I were a tree, securing her short muscular legs around my waist and her long arms around my neck. I stroke her coarse black …
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Elephant ‘tramples to death suspected poacher’
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Anti-Poaching Breakthrough at Odzala-Kokoua National Park
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Leopard interacts strangely with a vehicle
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Eco-Friendly Camp in the Greater Kruger
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Proflight Zambia flies orphaned hippo to safety
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Elephant smashes car window
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Proflight Zambia flies orphaned hippo to safety
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Leopard interacts strangely with a vehicle
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Madagascar by the compass
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Elephant ‘tramples to death suspected poacher’
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ChipembeleWildlife: oops! That is Milk + eggs x 3 hourly = 16 eggs tot...
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ChipembeleWildlife: A huge thanks to ZAWA for permissions, Conservatio...
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Reinhard Buchcik: oa wuiderer weniga! It was bavarian dialect, do no...
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