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Photography
Smart Solutions To Sharing Your Travels
Documenting The Journey – Smart Solutions To Sharing Your Travels Travelling offers a unique opportunity to create lasting memories, but managing the plethora of digital photos and files you accumulate can be a daunting task. Whether it’s a weekend getaway in the Lake District or a grand tour of Europe, your travel experiences deserve to be preserved and shared in the most effective way possible. Organising and sharing these memories should enhance the pleasure of your travels, not add to…
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Conservation
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Conservation
Great White Shark Behaviour
Great White Shark Behaviour & Information Great White Sharks engage in a number of behavioural and social activities, ranging from courtship to complex social behaviour. White sharks are generally very curious; they display intelligence and they even socialize if the situation demands it. Below are a few common behaviours witnessed by White Shark Projects – a shark diving and shark research operator in Hermanus, which launches its excursion boats from Gansbaai in South Africa: Gaping Obviously, sharks do not have arms, legs, hands or feet. What they do have…
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Conservation
The Economics Of The Illegal Wildlife Trade
The illegal trade of animals or animal parts has become one of the most lucrative black market activities in the world. Driven by the promise of high-profit margins, poachers in Africa – namely militias, armed groups, and insurgent groups – have driven rhinos and elephants close to extinction, while murdering hundreds of park rangers in the process. NGOs and governments now face a race against time to reduce demand for, particularly in Asia, as well as to equip those on the frontline to fight a well-armed enemy. By David Smith.…
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Conservation
To Breed, to Dehorn or to Poison?
The debate on how best to conserve Africa’s dwindling rhino population rages on. Is flooding the market with legally harvested rhino horn an option or is injecting poison into the horns of wild rhino a better option? Asks Des Langkilde. 1,657 Rhinos have been killed for their horns in South Africa alone since 2010 and despite the arrest of 717 poachers over the same period (refer table below), the illegal trade seems to have no end in sight. Rhino horn is prized for its use as an aphrodisiac and hangover…
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