Marabou Stork

...Often associates with humans near fishing villages and garbage dumps.Where Marabou Stork Are FoundThe Marabou Stork is found in Africa South of the Sahara.Latin nameLeptoptilos crumeniferus...
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What are the Bankenveld Honorary Rangers up to?

...He loves fishing and woodwork, and is a very involved family man.Neels Buitendag is the treasurer of Bankenveld and also a pharmacist. "He knows the veld very well, especially grasses and trees...
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The Green Alternative to Hunting

...He points out that increasingly people are reluctant to kill conscious animals, such as gorillas, chimps, dolphins and whales, and feels that elephants deserve the same rights.Iain points out a parallel with deep-sea fishing, where the technique of capture..
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Match Words With Action

...Most are signatories to international treaties which prohibits the the use of drug use, poisons, poisoned weapons, or poisoned weapons during any act of hunting, capturing or fishing...
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The Beauty Of Birding

...vulture, lammergier, ayres eagle, leonora's falcon, sooty falcon and others could be included in this category.The degradation of our water-ways and pressure on existing water supplies is threatening many species reliant on aquatic conditions. pel's owl..
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Fish For Tomorrow

...that Estuaries within our country are managed in a co-ordinated and efficient manner in accordance with the protocol", said Mabudafhasi According to Deat, the economic value of estuaries is estimated at R153,000/ha/year and the estuarine recreational fishing..
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Kruger Park Safari Adventures for the Disabled

...En-route home a full day is devoted to the spectacular Panorama Route with sights such as the Blyde River Canyon, the historical gold mining village of Pilgrims Rest and the highland village of Dullstroom, famous for the trout fishing to be had in its..
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Crocodiles

...Adults have also been observed fishing using their bodies and tails to corral the fish towards the bank where they are concentrated and picked up with a sideways snatch of the jaws.Females reach sexual maturity around 2.6 m, males at around 3.1 m...
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Hide And Seek

...Birders will be well aware of Scops Owl tightening its feathers and erecting its 'ears' to look like a piece of bark or a broken stump.The tawny frogmouth, overseas, does the same thing...
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Malopeni Eco 4x4 Overnight Trail

...It was a splendid sight to see the river appear like a Polaroid picture of old to the tune of southern ground hornbills and a spotted eagle owl welcoming a new day...
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Predators Do More Than Kill Prey

...Likewise, the crash that we have seen in the populations of many commercially exploited species of fish, and their failure to recover when fishing pressure is reduced, has been attributed to such indirect restructuring of the ecosystem...
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Thatch Harvesting in the Kruger National Park

...Some examples include the harvesting of Suurvye and wood in Agulhas National Park, fishing, ferns and forestry by-product harvesting in Tsitsikamma National Park, and wood, mopane worm and grass harvesting in Kruger National Park...
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Conservation Champions win Kudus

...John has published "Mountains in the Sea: An interpretive guide to Table Mountain National Park" for SANParks and has most recently written news reports on various issues including the ban of recreational fishing in the sea around Tsitsikamma National..
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Coping with Raiding Elephants and Hippos

...Avoiding over-fishing would thus be one way of reducing the danger they pose. Hippos, which, like elephants, are fond of raiding crops by night, may be deterred by shining a strong light in their eyes...
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How the World Has Changed in 20 Years

...This could have significant consequences on marine organisms which may alter species composition, disrupt marine food webs and potentially damage fishing, tourism activities. The ocean's pH declined from 8.11 in 1992 to 8.06 in 2007...
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Banhine In The Grip Of Drought

...These people impact on the reserve by way of their "slash and burn" agricultural practices and crops include maize, sorghum, cassava and sugar cane.As a result of the drought most of their crops have failed and most have reverted to hunting and fishing..
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Elephants To Cull or Not to Cull

...It is here, and only here, that you will find Pel's fishing owls breeding...
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Indigenous Knowledge for Fine Dine Cuisine

...After a while he knew litigation was not his strong suit and decided a six month conmercial fishing stint in Struisbaai would be just the thing to get his mind sorted on life...
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Birdlife

...The young are usually raised during the dry winter months in a nest built on the ground, or on top of a mound of vegetation placed in shallow water.Reed CormorantA Reed Cormorant dries its wings between fishing expeditions...
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Bushbaby

... PredatorsThe Lesser Bushbaby is preyed upon by the larger Owl species, taken by snakes, servals, African Wild Cats and genets. The main threat to the lesser bushbaby is fire...
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Greetings From Harare

...All the old haunts still offer excellent fishing and accommodation facilities.Animal control was, previously, conducted in National Parks with some discreetness and sensitivity for the public visitors...
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Northern Kruger Park Region

...along the Olifants and Letaba rivers.Where the Olifants cuts a gorge through the Lebombo, goliath heron, Cape Parrot, Yellowbellied Bulbul, Yellow-spotted Nicator and Black Stork build nests, and shrub mopaneveld can reveal Dickinson's Kestrel, Marsh Owl..
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Medicinal Uses of Trees

...tamboti bark, especially in winter; leaves are browsed by black rhino, elephants, giraffe, eland, kudu, nyala, impala and bushbuck; fallen fruits are eaten by guineafowl and monkeys Traditional medicinal and other uses Poisonous latex used in fishing..
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Kruger Park Ranger Vists Japan

...But later that mongoose started feeding on a certain species of birds that is endemic to Japan and currently they don't know how to reverse the whole process.The black bass was introduced for fishing in rivers and later preyed on indigenous species, bumble..
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Barbel Die-off Provides a Case for the Fish Forensic Detective

...Catfish are not always easy to collect with electro-fishing since they prefer the deeper areas that can only be sampled with nets...
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