I can’t be sure of course, but I think this young lion we saw in March while visiting the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park was only this charming because he wanted us to hang around for breakfast… Young male lion next to the road near the White Imfolozi River Young male lion next to the road near the […]
Autumn Adventure: Flirtatious Lion — de Wets Wild
See if you can spot the female Cheetah in this photograph. We spotted her on the 15th of December a few kilometers south of Satara. With her were two cubs; they were even more difficult to see. This was the first of 5 Cheetah sightings during our December 2021 visit to the Kruger National Park. […]
Satara Summer 2021 – Challenging Cheetah Camouflage — de Wets Wild
The Leopard is a big cat with excellent camouflage and stealthy habits. I am sure in all our years of visiting South Africa’s wild places we’ve passed many more Leopards without seeing them than we actually did notice, but I try not to dwell on that too much… With the Kruger Park being so lush […]
Satara Summer 2021 – Lurking Leopards — de Wets Wild
The plains around Satara in the Kruger National Park is renowned as one of the best places in South Africa to see the most regal of cats, the Lion. It therefore wasn’t surprising that our visit in December 2021 yielded no less than twenty encounters with the Kings (and Queens) of the Jungle. Finding fresh […]
Satara Summer 2021 – Big Cat Royalty: Lions! — de Wets Wild
Wedged into a remote corner of South Africa’s Northern Cape, between Namibia and Botswana, lies a very special piece of the Kalahari Desert. Here a wilderness of dunes, pans and dry, sandy river beds is a safe refuge to a rich variety of natural life, and one of the last fully functional ecosystems remaining on earth. […]
Celebrating 90 years since the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park was proclaimed — de Wets Wild
A report from Aljazeera. The tiger is one of four born on March 12 – white tigers are a genetic variation of orange Bengal tigers. Zookeepers at Cuba’s National Zoo in Havana are celebrating the birth of four Bengal tiger cubs, among them, a rare white tiger. The birth of the four striped cubs on […]
Rare white tiger born at Cuba’s Havana zoo — Repeating Islands
This morning we were treated to a very special audience with the King of the Mountain Zebra National Park at his residence on the Rooiplaat loop road. Male lion at Mountain Zebra National Park Male lion at Mountain Zebra National Park
Summertide Rambles 2 January 2021 — de Wets Wild
The post World-First: Captive-Born Cheetah Brothers Successfully Rewilded by The Aspinall Foundation appeared first on Katzenworld – Welcome to the world of cats!. The Aspinall Foundation are delighted to announce that the two cheetahs sent from Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent for a new life in the wilderness of South Africa’s Great Karoo have…
World-First: Captive-Born Cheetah Brothers Successfully Rewilded by The Aspinall Foundation — Katzenworld
Here’s a guest post from Monica Heft of Animal Creative Facts! In this post, Monica summarizes many of the key points that have led to jaguars becoming endangered or threatened in many of their range countries.
Guest Post: Why are Jaguars Endangered? — The Jaguar
Extinction is a natural event: animals and plants disappear naturally as time goes by, but – unfortunately – natural extinction is accelerating, due to anthropic factors, involving an increasing number of animals and plants. Natural extionction is usually a consequence of a gradual process, in which the number of animals or plants, belonging to a […]
WHY ARE SO MANY PLANTS AND ANIMALS ON THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION? — The Mirror
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