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Wildlife Travel Guide

editor — Mon, 22 May 2017 19:09:35 +0000

I was with Wayne Hartley – a Florida Manatee expert with the NGO, Save the Manatee Club – canoeing the 600 m of the Blue Spring stream in Florida. I had arranged the day with the club to get first-hand experience of these endearing creatures for my blog, Back from the Brink (Whittles, 2015). It was the sound of frequent nose blowing on the water’s surface that made the experience particularly surreal. It wasn’t a sound that I had expected to hear. But these loud exhalations and intakes of air were a reminder that the aquatic creatures lying on the

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Africa World Wildlife Travel Tours

editor — Tue, 16 May 2017 19:56:33 +0000

The perils of Hiring a Guide We were struggling through thorny scrub on some very sandy soil. ‘You stay here Mark and I will call when I find more tracks. He is here very close.’ Trouble was, in the thicket of sharp-spined acacia, I could see little of the sandy ground around me. But what I could see was a tad troubling. Burrows in the sand dotted here and there where I stood. Burrows that seemed to be about 10 cm in diameter. For a moment I thought they

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World Wildlife Travel Tours

editor — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:59:13 +0000

I’d been talking to experts at the Bombay Natural History Society (BHNS), the RSPB’s equivalent in India, and I had mentioned the Deonar tip. I knew that it once had thousands of vultures circling over it and pouncing down on to its scraps of food. But they had all died out. Or so the BHNS people believed. I thought I should check it out, and at least find out what birds had taken over from the once omnipresent vultures. The society gave me a driver and a vehicle for the morning to get there. They were not very optimistic about

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