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| Title |
Antelope from the ashes (Part two) |
| Author |
John Frederick Walker |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
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Vol.18, No.6 |
| Date |
July 2010 |
| Summary |
John Frederick Walker continues his first-hand account of the bold attempt to save Angola’s giant sable from extinction, relating how the collared animals are relocated to Cangandala National Park. He also debates the all-important question: does the Giant Sable Conservation Project have any chance of success?
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| Title |
Antelope from the ashes (Part one) |
| Author |
John Frederick Walker |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
| Volume |
Vol.18, No.5 |
| Date |
June 2010 |
| Summary |
Endemic to Angola, the giant sable is revered as a national icon. There is a disconnect, however, between the antelope’s symbolic importance and its conservation status. In the first of a two-part series, John Frederick Walker takes us inside an audacious expedition to breed the subspecies back from the brink
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| Title |
Desert detour for Damaras |
| Author |
Text & photographs by Rob Simmons |
| Publication |
Africa - Birds & Birding |
| Volume |
Vol.14, No.6 |
| Date |
January 2010 |
| Summary |
The exotically named Baia dos Tigres (Bay of Tigers) is one of the most remote and inaccessible places in southern Africa. Positioned at the northern end of the Namib Desert, on the Angolan coast, this is a land of sand dunes, wind, rocky plains and ghostly islands. Getting a chance to travel there and continue my tern research was a dream come true. As a member of a larger biodiversity initiative between South Africa and Angola, I had set myself the challenge of solving a mystery and, in doing so, I fulfilled a lifelong
ambition to visit the Angolan desert. |
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| Title |
Defending the water towers |
| Author |
Contributors: Tim Jackson; Guy Preston |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
| Volume |
Vol.17, No.9 |
| Date |
October 2009 |
| Summary |
Africa’s great mountain ranges – the Ruwenzoris,
the Maloti–Drakensberg system and the Ethiopian, Guinea and Angolan highlands – could be said to be the continent’s water ‘factories’, for it is here that climatic conditions, biodiversity and topography combine to generate the fresh water that so many rely upon. |
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| Title |
Return to Eden |
| Author |
TEXT BY GEOFF DALGLISH and PHOTOGRAPHS BY INGA HENDRIKS |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
| Volume |
Vol 17, No. 6 |
| Date |
July 2009 |
| Summary |
The future is bleak indeed for young chimps orphaned by the bushmeat trade and abducted from the wilds for the amusement of humans. Now, dedicated staff at a primate sanctuary in South Africa are rehabilitating the chimps with a view to reintroducing them to the rainforests of Angola and Gabon. Geoff Dalglish visited Chimpanzee Eden, the country’s only Jane Goodall-approved primate sanctuary, to take a look
for himself. |
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| Title |
Cunene fairy tale: Cinderella Waxbill |
| Author |
Johann Grobbelaar |
| Publication |
Africa - Birds & Birding |
| Volume |
Vol.11, No.6 |
| Date |
December 2006 |
| Summary |
The Cinderella Waxbill is the least known and most range-restricted member of the superspecies, being confined to western Angola and the Cunene valley along the northern fringes of Namibia. For many years it has been incorrectly depicted in both photographic and illustrated fieldguides. It is shown with red on the tail, when in fact it as an all-black tail, as Johann Grobbelaar was able to show after eventually managing to photograph this enigmatic estrildid.
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| Title |
Giant among sables |
| Author |
John Frederick Walker |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
| Volume |
Vol.13, No.10 |
| Date |
November 2005 |
| Summary |
When, as a small boy, John Frederick Walker saw a picture of a giant sable in an old hunting book, he was instantly struck by the incomparable geometry of the bull's horns. The animal looked exactly as it ought to look - perfect, a creature almost heraldic in its stateliness, like some legendary beast. He promptly fell under its spell. So while the civil war in Angola raged he waited anxiously, hoping that the gaint sable, the country's national animal, might survive. |
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| Title |
Miombo magic: Mutinondo wilderness |
| Author |
Warwick Tarboton & Johann Grobbelaar |
| Publication |
Africa - Birds & Birding |
| Volume |
Vol.9, No.2 |
| Date |
April 2004 |
| Summary |
Known to a host of birders for the array of interesting species it supports, the miombo woodland stretches in a great swathe across Central Africa, from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east, with Zambia at its core and extensions running northward |
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| Title |
Cuanza Sul: The heart of Angola |
| Author |
Ian Sinclair |
| Publication |
Africa - Birds & Birding |
| Volume |
Vol.8, No.3 |
| Date |
June 2003 |
| Summary |
For nearly three decades the ravages of civil war meant that Angola remained frustratingly out of bounds to birders who were eager to discover the wealth of species unrecorded for so long. Intrepid explorers Ian Sinclair and (photographer) Peter Ryan report on the first ornithological visit to Gabela, which lies at the centre of the Angolan scarp forest - a key endemic bird area boasting its own akalat, bush shrike and helmet-shrike. As there are currently no organised birding tours to Angola, Sinclair also provides basic travel tips and safety advice to the discerning traveller. |
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| Title |
Rough Diamond |
| Author |
Nico de Bruyn |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
| Volume |
Vol.10,No.6 |
| Date |
July 2002 |
| Summary |
With its extraordinary beauty, geographical diversity and proximity to Africa’s oldest city, Luanda, Angola’s Quiçama National Park was meant to be the flagship of that country’s tourism industry. Three decades of civil war, however, put paid to that dream. Nico de Bruyn brings us this bittersweet report on what remains in an area that once teemed with wildlife – and what is being done to restore it. |
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| Title |
Total Eclipse |
| Author |
Philip Briggs; Ariadne Van Zandbergen (photographs) |
| Publication |
Africa Geographic |
| Volume |
Vol.9, No.7 |
| Date |
August 2001 |
| Summary |
On 21 June 2001, the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century arced through the skies of southern Africa, passing above parts of Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. In this article, Philip Briggs describes his memorable experience of watching the moon glide in front of the sun, while Ariadne Van Zandbergen’s photographic sequence illustrates the phenomenon beautifully. Briggs also gives details of the second total solar eclipse of this century, which will occur on 4 December 2002, and urges people to make the effort to see it from the path of totality. |
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| Title |
A passion for pittas |
| Author |
Penn Lloyd (adapted from Pittas, Broadbills and Asities, by Frank Lambert and Martin Woodcock, published by Russel Friedman Books) |
| Publication |
Africa - Birds & Birding |
| Volume |
Vol.4, No.2 |
| Date |
April 1999 |
| Summary |
Ask a birder who has been either lucky or determined enough to see a pitta, and their eyes light up with the thrill of the experience. Secretive, elusive and a bundle of vibrant colour, the Angola Pitta ranks as one of southern Africa’s most sought-after birds. This article takes a closer look at the bird and its lifestyle. |
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