As most of our readers know, AHF supports Conservation South Luangwa (CSL) whose mission is to protect the amazing wildlife in Zambia with a focus on the endangered elephant herds of the valley. We often feature CSL’s anti-poaching patrols and efforts in these blogs. But an equally important part of CSL’s work is in the area of Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC). This work requires persistence, creativity and the cooperation of local Zambian villagers.
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Africa Hope Fund helps supports people who put their lives at risk to protect Africa’s wildlife, especially elephants whose numbers are still perilously low. Your contributions go directly to organizations like Conservation South Luangwa (http://cslzambia.org/) where Rachel McCobb and the scouts in her organization risk their lives when they investigate poaching activity in the Zambian bush.
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This little cub has a mother, father, and older brother. Africa Hope Fund helps support the Zambia Carnivore Program which tracks carnivores in three locations in Zambia. The knowledge they gain from radio-tracking collars, months spent in the bush, and air patrols from the plane they share with Conservation South Luangwa helps protect all carnivores in the South Luangwa Valley.
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We never seem to get tired of snapping photos of hippos, even though they are dangerous and tend to be cranky. This is actually a bird photo because the bird on the hippo’s head is one of my favorites. It’s a hammerkop stork. He always looks like he’s being blown by the wind and it’s messing up his hair.
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This leopard is just waking up from his afternoon nap. The sun is beginning to set, and he’s thinking about supper. Leopards tend to hunt alone. This guy is in a dry gully. Sitting above him in our Land Rover, we can snap tons of photos of him at just about every angle from his pink tongue to his rosettes of black that help distinguish him from a cheetah.
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