Rhino Conservation

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Dr William Fowlds is a wildlife vet in South Africa, and the founder of our Vets Go Wild courses. One of the privileges in Dr William Fowld’s professional life is to work with rhino around the Eastern Cape reserves and to get to know them as individuals. Dr Fowlds travels to the East and to the West sharing his personal testimony of the brutal reality of poaching from the coal face as well as efforts to bring back rhino from the brink of death with his pioneering veterinary care. This World Rhino Day, we caught up with Dr Fowlds and asked him the following questions: Rhinos are iconic animals,Read More →

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Dave McNab, who has firsthand experience after working as a Field Guide in South Africa, gives us 10 interesting facts about the Honey Badger “Honey badgers are what you might call a ‘cult classic’ of the African bush. Many peoples favourite out with the limelight stealing ‘Big 5’ because of harrowing tales of fighting off lions, leopards and anything else foolish enough to pick a fight with them. Their larger than life character and never-say-die attitude has rightfully placed these small but mighty badgers at an almost mythical status. I’m sure we have all seen the legendary footage often shown on the wildlife documentaries andRead More →

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Jessica is a hippo with a phenomenal story of touching people’s hearts. She was found very young in an emaciated state along the banks of the Blyde River in South Africa, and taken in and rehabilitated by the Tonie and Shirley Joubert. Since her rescue in 2000, Jessica grew from strength to strength, and today interacts with wild hippos in the river, as well as the Joubert family and their dogs, never wanting to miss her treat time. Treat time involves a snack with two bottles of tea and a back rub. Visitors are welcome to join for a small fee and be part ofRead More →

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Dave McNab, who has firsthand experience after working as a Field Guide in South Africa, elaborates on why in his eyes, the Giraffe is the most elegant and sophisticated of them all. “For me, the most elegant and sophisticated of all the beasts must be the Giraffe! At least they are seemingly elegant with the way they strut around with an element of belonging more accustomed to a Madrid catwalk rather than the African bush. It is difficult to put a finger on why the extravagant connotations we put on them are so. Is it from the chief distinguishing characteristics of its extremely long neckRead More →