The Wildlife Blog Collection is a new compilation of 70 short stories celebrating some of the most memorable, entrancing and exciting wildlife moments as told by top nature writers from across the globe. From the discovery of a clouded leopard in Borneo’s degraded rainforests, to an audience with an African crowned eagle and its unlucky…
“You’re right, this is pretty rad!” My tanned, plainly elated friend chimed as she grabbed the bag of chips from my hand seeing as I had overstayed my turn with the snacks. “What’d you say his name is again?” Yea, grasping names was evidently not Merle’s forte. Against a Mt Kilimanjaro backdrop, renting the air…
She was perched on a dead tree branch about three meters in front of me. Oh was she a sight to behold. She posed like she owned the world as if in wait for the trees to take a bow in honor of her magnificence, oozing of strength, power and blood from traces of her…
People just need to be directed to the right direction. Most people fail to do the right thing due to lack of knowledge or exposure to wrong facts. It was during my twenty-seventh birthday. A friend of mine offered me a treat to Ol Donyo Sabuk, a mountain near Thika, Kenya. He got it right,…
Watching children learn about wildlife and our environment is always amazing. It was a cold morning in Nairobi. I woke up earlier than normal, excited to be going to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy; for the first time. I was curious. Then I imagined how the children who had invited us to join them in their educational…
I didn’t know what to expect the first time I went gorilla trekking. I’d been on safaris in Kenya and Tanzania, but gorilla trekking was something altogether different. Imagining what I might be about to experience evoked memories of watching ‘Gorilla’s in the Mist’ as a young child. Although, my memories of the movie are…
We were there, looking each other in the eyes. I fell. In love. She gave a look down at me and she walked away. Without looking back. I was prepared to fall in love and be rejected. It didn’t matter. My love is unconditional, and it will last forever. I will always remember with deep…
The family week was coming to an end at my local church. To crown the week, the leadership of the Young Couples had planned for a retreat. the text directed us to the venue: “After the gate to Impala Park, drive or walk straight till you get to an open field with a banda” (Swahili…
Over the weekend, Paul, Jabez , James and I decided to pay the Grevy Zebras and Samburu Giraffe a visit at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, during the Great Grevy Zebra Rally. After, having our breakfast in a ‘Kibandasky’ (a local hotel,) in Nanyuki town, we set out for the journey that took us approximately fifteen minutes.…
30th August 2018 remains my favorite wildlife moment. I arrived at the David Sheldrick Animal Orphanage by 10 AM, one hour before the stipulated entry time. So I started looking around for something to do, occasionally playing hide and seek with a squirrel that had noticed how idle I was and came to share company.…