Tracks of Giants: Personal Reflection
The TRACKS team were due to cross the border into western Botswana today, 27 May, at remote Dobe and to meet PJ Besterlink, old friend and...
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Tracks of Giants: The first days of the expedition
Home alone after an intense busy stressful intimate people-filled period of the first 12 days of the Tracks of Giants project – it is difficult to...
Tracks of Giants: The long haul across Namibia
18th May 2012 – Eighteen days and 880 kms later, its rest day at Andersons Camp in the Ongava Concession that lies adjacent to the Okaukuejo Gate of...
Tracks of Giants: Hiking the Horuseb Valley
Hiking up the Horuseb Valley, across the Skeleton Coast, was a lifetime experience. As we turned inland from the coast we saw our first...
Tracks of Giants: Crossing the Desert
I have been to the tiny dusty village of Puros a number of times, but never had this collection of drab tin and pre-fab dwellings been such a...
Tracks of Giants: Hiking the Skeleton Coast
1 May 2012 wake-up call at 0500 – it was very dark and damp on the little promontory of Rocky Point, jutting into the Atlantic Ocean on Namibia’s...
Tracks of Giants: Driving to Rocky Point
30 April, at the base camp in Purros, NW Namibia– We packed for the first 5 days which would be a Wilderness Leadership School type wilderness...
Tracks of Giants: Getting Ready
After meetings in Washington DC in late April, everything was focused on gathering exit speed in the US to head to NW Namibia to join the team...
Andrew Muir Awarded at World Economic Forum on Africa
Five leading innovators were named the Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2012 Africa by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the...
Return of the Lynx
In my undergrad ecology class at SUNY at Buffalo we studied predator/prey cycles and a well-studied phenomena of ecology is the predator prey cycle...
Tracks of Giants expedition to launch May 1st!
May 1st is just around the corner! The Tracks of Giants website has been launched, the intro video is complete, people are following along on...
Dr Ian Player receives the Anton Rupert Award
Peace Parks Foundation CEO, Mr Werner Myburgh (second from right), hands the Anton Rupert Award certificate to Dr Ian Player (second from left). Dr...
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“A heart for rhinos”– Interview with Dr. Ian Player
In this upcoming April edition of Africa Geographic, Dr Ian Player–WILD’s founder–is interviewed by Rachel Lang about the past and...
Sleepwalking in the Wilderness, Part II
“Wilderness, it is here I came to know myself, but it was only just the beginning, because I found the more you know your true self, the more you...
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Rhino Briefing in DC
The rhino poaching crisis is escalating daily. Of the world’s total rhinos (approximately 20,000 white rhino, and 4,000 black rhino), 80% are in...
Sleepwalking in the Wilderness
Orion’s belt is now in the center of my sky. The moon is half, waxing to full. The air is cold, crisp and there is a heavy stillness, deathly...
Forever Wild-YouTube Intervention
The Ogilvy Cape Town Agency created an interesting analysis of a new strategy developed in a social media campaign for our sister organization, the...