Kenya’s Orphaned Baby Elephants
Since becoming the the first person to ever hand rear newborn elephants, Daphne Sheldrick, has spent over half a century caring for more than 140…
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All Cats Love Boxes
As we all know these furry friends can’t resist a bit of cardboard.
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Kapela
Kapela, the rhino calf.
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Buffalo Fight
GRAND PRIZE WINNER Federico Verones Cape Buffalo Fight, Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya.
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HTI Osmosis Filtration Pouches
From Designboom – Developed as an emergency aid for these types of situations, the ‘hydropack’ by hydration technologies self-hydrates itself through a forward osmosis membrane that allows the…
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 2012 WINNERS
Here are last years’ winning images from the National Geographic photos of the year competition. The first image of the cheetas is, ofcourse, the only…
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Oldest Gorilla Celebrates Her 56th Birthday
Colo, a western lowland gorilla, opened a pile of presents at her home in Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Ohio, where she was born in 1956.
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Totally Out There
A recent article in the UK’s Stella magazine talks about women who’s live for the outdoors. One woman who was profiled was Sveva Gallmann, 32,…
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2012 Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
A few days ago the winners of the 2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest, which is run by the UK’s Natural History Museum and…
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Baby Elephant rescued by Conservationists
A video from elephant research and conservation project Amboseli Trust for Elephants has now started to trend on the internet – and you can certainly…
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Magical Kenya: Africa’s Leading Tourist Board 2012
Magical Kenya wins ‘Africa’s Leading Tourist Board 2012″ World Travel Award
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Rhino Watch
With rhinos under increasing threat from poachers, conservancies in east Africa are on a mission to save the species. There is high value placed on…
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The Great Migration
With Lady Lori, you can soar on silent wings across the breath-taking savannah grasslands of the Maasai Mara.
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Lady Lori Logo
Many people have asked about the palm and paw logo which features on some of our aircraft, and so I thought we’d share a brief…
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The Rwenzori Mountains’ Melting Glaciers
I read an interesting article in UK Newspaper The Guardian about the threatened and fading glaciers on the Rwenzori mountains in Uganda and the Democratic…
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Jane Goodall honoured with lifetime achievement award.
Lady Lori was pleased to see that renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall was honoured with The Observer’s lifetime achievement award.
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The Living Walls Program
I read an interesting article, including an interview with Masaai Women, in National Geographic about the effect The Living Walls Program – an initiative by…
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Rhino Horn theft in European Museums
In addition to our previous posts regarding the issues around the brutal dehorning of rhino’s, it’s ever so shocking to read that the number of…
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Chimpanzee Portraits
These arresting photographs of chimpanzees were taken in the ‘Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary’ in Kenya, by Spanish photographer Gabi Guiard.
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National Geographic Magazine on Rhino Wars
The cover of the March edition of National Geographic Magazine shows this image of a black rhino fleeing ropers in eastern Kenya in 1968. Its…
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Animal Charity Rescues Orang-utan Pair From Bounty Hunters
This is the second blog post I’m adding this week not directly related to Africa, but I thought it would be worth sharing this moving…
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Blooming Business in Kenya
Being from Holland – country of the flowers – I was more than a little surprised to read an article in UK magazine GEO about…
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Not extinct, just living somewhere else…
Although not found in Africa, being interested in conservation I thought it was certainly worth a post when I read about the re-discovery of an…
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WWF Desertification Campaign
I came across these impressive images used for a WWF campaign on desertification
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David Attenborough’s urgent appeal to save the eastern lowland gorilla
David Attenborough, Vice President of the International Conservation Charity Fauna and Flora International, ran an urgent appeal over Christmas in a number of UK newspapers…
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Lady Lori in Harper’s Bazaar Travel Hot 100
UK Harper’s Bazaar Travel Hot 100 talks about journeys of a lifetime and refers to Lady Lori’s helicopter flight into The Great Rift Valley as…
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Adopt a baby elephant for Christmas
An appeal went out for Brits to adopt abandoned baby elephants for Christmas. One of which is the very cute orphaned jumbo on this photo…
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Gorilla’s are being given iPad’s at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
This gorilla is enjoying a bit of ‘iPad-time’ at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent, UK
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Black rhino calf and its mother at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
This shot of rhino calf Nyota with mother Vuyu, a critically endangered black rhino, was taken by Vincent Catt at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park…
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The Nature Conservancy raises poaching awareness among the Chinese
I read an interesting article in the UK Telegraph about a private safari in Kenya that The Nature Conservancy (TNC) organized for a group of…
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Angelique Todd – ‘the Gorilla Whisperer’
I read a very interesting article in the UK Telegraph about Angelique Todd and thought it would be worth sharing.
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‘Serengeti – The Eternal Beginning’ by Boyd Norton
Award-winning author-photographer Boyd Norton draws upon his extensive experiences and photographs of the Serengeti ecosystem, including the Serengeti National Park, Kenya’s Masai Mara, and Ngorongoro…
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Giraffe Manor
When I read a review about the Giraffe Manor in the Saturday Telegraph, my colleague Marc Carter, who has visited Nairobi a couple of times…
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Saved from a muddy grave
A very touching article about a baby elephant and its mother who were rescued from the Kapani lagoon in Zambia where they got stuck in…
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The Great Serengeti – Tonight 21.00 UK time on Nat Geo Wild
Last week I watched the first episode of this new National Geographic TV documentary, not to be missed by anyone!
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“Kenya” by Michael Poliza & Friends
This stunning new book about Kenya, full of specteculair aerial shots, photos of dramatic landscapes, powerful animal studies, and portraits of proud Maasai, was published…
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Aerial shot of the Gura Falls
What you see here is a shot of the Aberdare region, specifically the Gura Falls, taken from under the tail boom of one of our…
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Chebii
It is with much sadness that we have to report that our great friends at Loisaba have contacted us regarding the poaching of Chebii, one…
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From Growth to Power
The Prix Pictet Growth Cycle reached its conclusion this week with the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Chris Jordan at the Diemar/Noble Photography,…
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Delighted Chimpanzees ‘see daylight for the first time’
Click the image to see a video that shows a group of 38 chimps that had spent 30 years inside testing facilities in Austria being…