NEWS

May 16, 2008

Pula is released

As part of the research, we monitor the release and rehabilitation of captive elephants from a camp near here. So far we have released five, and […]
May 20, 2008

Early morning thoughts

It is 0545 here in camp, and the camp is waking up. The generator has been switched on, breaking the beautiful night time sounds and I […]
May 27, 2008

Flight to South Africa as unrest prevails

As I flew over Johannesburg as we circled to land at Oliver Tambo Airport – I marvelled at the size of it, a city that has […]
November 24, 2008

Go West

We headed out west today. We cannot go out west during the flood season as the water cuts it off and so we make the most […]
December 30, 2008

Successful summit of Mt Kilimanjaro

On the Charities’ 1st birthday, 28th December 2008, Simon Buckingham, Rebecca Smith and I stood on top of the highest mountain in Africa and the world’s […]
September 11, 2009

Diana has survived by Mphoeng

I first meet Diana on the 22nd of November 2008, whilst I was out doing field work with Kate and Joseph. We could tell something was […]
October 5, 2009

Uncanny Elephants by Graham Bowles

There are many things that amaze me about elephants, their size and strength mixed with such grace and their ability to understand things with no obvious […]
November 13, 2009

Back to Camp with Ellie the Car

After a very successful fundraising trip to the states, Sim and I drove our personal vehicle back to camp, an 8 hour journey from Maun, through […]
November 17, 2009

Rain stops research

As I write this a rain thunders down onto the tin roof of our office and takes away the oppressive heat of the day. The storm […]
November 21, 2009

Aerial Survey

arrived in Tubu Tree Lodge on the next door concession on Sunday, just in time for lunch, having been picked up by the rest of the […]
November 21, 2009

Training in the bush for NYC MARATHON

Sunday morning and the alarm went off at 0530. We left for the airstrip at 0600 and after checking the perimeter for animals, I started running […]
November 24, 2009

A day in the life of a researcher

The dawn chorus wakes me, a cacophony of bird song taking over from the noises of the night. I am keen to get out and about […]
November 27, 2009

Poop to tell the tale

0530 and the alarm ring joined the sounds of the dawn chorus and roused me out of deep sleep. My motivation to get up and go […]
January 6, 2010

Pula! (rain)

We went out last night to celebrate the camp managers at Seba’s birthday and so we headed for the bridge and had a lovely bush dinner. […]
March 16, 2010

Napoleon is in musth

As dawn broke we heard elephants outside our tent so went out to try and see them and we came across a small herd, led by […]
April 10, 2010

Marula season in the Delta

Elephants LOVE marula fruit. We have a marula tree outside out our tent and it is in fruit and so we are having lots of visits […]
April 11, 2010

Amadeus the elephant

Thando is back in the area and so we headed out towards the picnic site as he was near there from his satellite downloads. I tracked […]
July 17, 2010

Busy Day

It was a particularly busy day today. The alarm went off at 0545 and whilst the rest of the camp was still asleep, even the birds […]
August 5, 2010

Hyena in the kitchen

After a long day out with the elephants, working on a talk I am giving in Gaborone next week and the International Elephant Foundation application we […]
August 18, 2010

Bridget gets her daily fruit

On an afternoon research drive we are headed for the airstrip. On the way we came across to young males between the ages of 10 and […]
November 21, 2010

Bush Birthday

When you live and work in the bush it is very easy to loose track of time and distracted by work that time relaxing is a […]
November 27, 2010

Making a Plan

There is a saying in the bush ‘ Making a Plan’ and this is usually but into action when you are in the middle of nowhere […]
April 30, 2011

Miss Charlie Ellis

On Friday we said a very fond farewell to Charlie Ellis, but thankfully she is not going far (see her recent blog). Elephants For Africa, is […]
May 16, 2012

Ellie and the Ferry

Our Saturday morning almost ended in disaster, fortunately in only turned into a minor delay and placating an irate ferry master. The Boteti River is flowing […]