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Tracking Lappet-faced Vultures in Namibia's Namib Desert

A while ago we published a blog entitled “Distant Weather Drums” about the La Niña effect which often results in abundant rain for Namibia. But now the opposite oscillation persists, El Niño and we are ever in the grip of low rainfall and terrible drought in some areas. While neither El Niño nor La Niña are an indication of more or less rain, low rainfall on the western side of the African continent is often associated with El Niño conditions. (Sat image above shows the tel

A fuchsia forest of legs and with long elegant necks tucked into their pink chests, the abundant flocks of flamingos are almost synonymous with Swakopmund and especially with the Walvis Bay lagoon. Walvis Bay is one of the best places in the world to see these gorgeous birds and annual census of both greater and lesser species combined average over 65 000 birds. With their curiously back-bending knees, they can often be seen roosting on the sandbars among the mudflats, but a

Blending so well into their surroundings – despite their very distinctive stripes – it is often our horses that alert us to the presence of

When asked about his most memorable experience David Attenborough describes a scene in which he, undetected, was privy to the observation of animals going about their lives. The great psychologist C.G. Jung describes a similar scene on his visit to the Mara in Kenya. Describing it as “the eternal beginning, the world as it had always been, in the state of nonbeing; for until then no one had been present to know that it was this world.” In Namibia we have the opportunity to