Also Dogs and Wagons Opportunities for Africa Africa’s Lowveld, Bushveld, located between the Mpumalanga side of the Drakensberg Mountains and Mozambique, is part of a immense subtropical region of savanna that stretches north through Zimbabwe and Zambia as far as Central Africa. Long before the formation of the Kruger Park, the Lowveld was […]
Hidden Mozambique
A Country Lost In Time. Discover Mozambique’s hidden treasure. This unseen gem in Southeast Africa is encircled by six of southern Africa’s most diverse and iconic countries. Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe Swaziland and South Africa, border Mozambique in the north, northwest and southwest. On the east, the Indian Ocean washes at the edges […]
Flowering Bushveld
They Come in Many Colors The Camera; a Flower’s Best Friend The first tentative rains came last night. The timing is right – mid September – now they need to keep coming regularly. While the plight of the wildlife in a drought is well documented, the decimation of the flowering bushveld is a […]
African Vendors
Free Trade; The Way It Used To Be On the road to Mozambique. Have you got Mozambique on your mind? Then this is a must for you? Africa; a continent that hums and buzzes and crackles with energy! Nowhere is this mojo better demonstrated than when you’re on the road. In the hypnotic […]
San Bushman Rock Paintings
Have Ochre, Will Paint A Higher Social Order Than Most When any people communicate their aspirations, it shows a mind and spirit of a higher order. Peoples come and go without saying or leaving anything for their descendants in personal art or writings. This subject usually raises the question, “what were […]
Kruger Starvation
Remove to Replenish It’s a killing field. Here at Wildmoz bush camp, each day brings us closer to rain but when it will come is anyone’s guess. It is not Wildmoz’s policy to show animals suffering, so please imagine the situation for yourself. Southern Africa is withering under a cataclysmic drought; here they […]
Monomotapa Iron Makers
Kingdom of Motapa and Beyond Have tools will travel Between 1430 and 1760, there existed a great kingdom in Sothern African, Monomotapa, known as the Mutapa Empire, which was ruled by the Shona people. This kingdom of Mutapa incorporated what we know today as Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, including Swaziland and […]
Pallets: Africa Style
Pallets, Recycling Natural Resources Innovations the Pallet Way Increasingly, we live in a world that is rewriting the rules. Climate change, poverty, and war (where animals and people are victims) blights many of earth’s most beautiful countries. So people fight back – salvaging, recycling, educating, planting and improving. But nowhere is this more […]
Hungry Hunter and the Honeyguide
Birds Lead Humans to Honey Honey to the rescue Long, long ago somewhere in Africa… When the earth and all the people and animals were new… One long dry season, a drought had gripped the land and man and beast were forced to travel far and wide in their pursuit of nourishment. There […]
African Python Terror
Rocky Python the Predator It’s Only a Snake As snakes go, pythons are not generally high on anyone’s mind. Until you get into real python country and they become the major threat to domestic animals. Traditionally, pythons are killed on sight when found around the compound or camp. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the […]
Lion Fight ER: A Struggle for Life
Saving the Lions Even Lions Need a Doctor Dr. Jacs Mostert was called in to repair this magnificent lion’s wounds, to prevent blood-born parasites and infection. Apparently, this lion got into a fight with another male. This is a holding pen – or lion fight Emergency Room – where the lion will be […]
Rhino Capture Zimbabwe
Rhino Rescue How History Tells the Story “Just how long can a rhino’s horn get?” This recent question from a would-be conservationist had us scratching our heads. Most rhinos today don’t have the luxury of reaching old-age. In an effort to protect them from poacher’s guns, rhino horns are removed or, in the […]