Volunteering in the Luangwa Valley
My daughter Lindsey and I stayed at Marula Lodge in Mfuwe Village, Zambia, in July when we volunteered to tutor students in reading at Uyoba School. The lodge is named for the Marula tree, which is indigenous to the Luangwa Valley woodlands, where giraffes, zebras, and antelope graze, and where for centuries plant-eating, native rhinoceroses thrived before poaching made them extinct. Every night elephants and hippos come through the grounds to forage at Marula. Elephants also eat the bark, branches, and fruits of the marula tree, yanking off huge branches. Sometimes the grounds are a bit…
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What To Expect From A Safari To Zambia
What an incredible experience to go to Zambia and to be so welcomed by the local people of Luangwa. To see how they have learned to live with the animals to the benefit of each other, by building elephant safe grain storage rather than killing them. Everyone we met greeted us with a smile.
Every day brought an experience…
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Save Elephants, Save The Environment
Scientists say there is a connection between the extinction of a major species and our survival as humans, and warn that we are experiencing the beginning of earth's sixth mass biological extinction. There have been five mass extinctions over the past billion years, where the loss of major species caused a dramatically reduced diversity of life. The most…
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