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The dogs have shaken me off again, but not completely.
We had eventually managed to catch this poor hyaena in a trap. The poachers wire snare around his neck had cut deep, about half an inch, and the steel wire was still there cutting deeper all the time.
We managed to remove it without difficulty, cleaned him, […]


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Taking to the skies at dawn I was confident I’d find the wild dog pups in the hills. They just have to be there.
I scoured the hills to and fro checking out every little foot of country but came up empty. Nothing, nothing, nothing!

Back on the ground several hours later I heard on the radio […]


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Eventually I have to get lucky in finding the wild dogs. Another 2 hours in the air today proved useless.
But I did find this ‘prehistoric’ looking giraffe carcass. It must be several days old and I flushed a number of vultures off it. So why hadn’t I seen it the last 3 days? It was […]


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I had just taken off and was only meters off the ground when my goggles totally fogged up. The warm moist upper air reacting with my cold goggles had them misting up. I had to take them off for a few minutes while everything adjusted to the warm upper air.

And below the mist lay thick […]


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