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Money for honey – and a spotty cat

This is the day I have been preparing for, the visit to Singita Grumeti’s community outreach programme. We head for the environmental centre, passing topi, warthogs, the ubiquitous zebras and birds galore. We visit the local school, a beekeeper who is making money from honey; an idea his child learned at school. Another has planted [...]

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News from Niassa: A family in the wild

“Some people feel the rain, others just get wet” Bob Dylan We like to feel the rain. We also sometimes get wet, as for nine months of the year we sleep in a Mozzie dome tent on a platform under a sausage tree In Niassa National Reserve, Mozambique. We’ve been here for nine years running [...]

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