Discover the fascinating world of color phase animals in North America and Africa, from black bears to golden wildebeest. Explore their origins, value, and conservation.
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Hunting in the Kalahari: What you need to know
Kalahari is a geographical region in southern Africa, where animals as well as the San (Bushmen) people have adapted well to harsh, semi-desert and desert conditions.
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Adventure at Karrekloof. By James Reed
Karreekloof has been converted, in just three years, from a livestock farm to a 105,000-acre game reserve with more than 6,000 wild animals, including both black and white rhinoceros, thus creating one of the leading self-sustaining conservation models in Africa and a true rhino sanctuary.
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Good Times, Bad Times: Springbok hunting in Gordon-Cumming’s “Five Years in South Africa” and today
“The springbok is so termed by the colonists on account of its peculiar habit of springing or taking extraordinary bounds, rising to an incredible height in the air, when pursued”, wrote Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming in “Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa”. The graceful antelope that has become the symbol of South Africa once covered the plains with its innumerable herds. Today it is mostly found on game farms, hunting concessions, national parks and protected areas, and the impressive “trek-bokken” is but a memory of times gone by. But are the good times of springbok hunting then or now?
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