Magazines

SWARA

[Your Name Here] — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:33:34 +0000

SWARA is the quarterly magazine of the East African Wildlife Society. It enjoys global readership, and is recognised as among the best wildlife magazines in the world, and certainly the best in the region. Founded in 1961, after 5 years of operating as the Kenya Wild Life Society, the East African Wild Life Society has been at the forefront of active conservation in the region. With members from both the East African region and other countries around the world, EAWLS is committed to promoting the conservation and wise use of East Africa’s wildlife and the environment’.

One of my bat eared fox cub images adorns the cover of the latest, October - December 2007, Issue. A feature story on these diminutive members of the Canidae family gives them a spot in the limelight.

SWARA

[Your Name Here] — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:37:48 +0000

In Kenya bat-eared foxes tend to be confined to protected areas, yet they are often overlooked by visitors intent on finding larger predators or keen to get back to their comfortable lodges.

... Spending a day at grazed grass level may mean coming up smelling less than rosy with blotchy red bite marks and big clumps of greasy hair, but watching bat-eared foxes go about their business in the midst of the migration action is as entertaining as any predator-prey drama, and I defy anyone to resist their charms.

Africa Geographic

[Your Name Here] — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:44 +0000

The story of Dwesa - a paradise where the beaches write their own story - was published in Vol 14, No 8. There is a part of South Africa where animals still move freely along the coast and use beaches as highways. I went to Dwesa Nature Reserve on the Wild Coast with the World Wide Fund for Nature's marine programme and found that it might be small, but there's a lot to it: 300 bird species on record, abundant mammals, a diverse rocky shore fauna, and diverse flora, not to mention the unusual ocean backdrop to wildlife-viewing.

Africa Geographic

[Your Name Here] — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:56:29 +0000

Knowledge creates empowerment and raising public awareness of the threats currently facing Kenya's Tana River Delta is key to ensuring this coastal wilderness gains formal protection. Spreading into the heart of the wetlands, sugarcane fields will destroy much of the Delta's biological diversity, and the local Orma tribe who are opposed to the project need the support of organisations such as BirdLife International and the East African Wildlife Society. The December/January 2008 issue of Africa Geographic published my news article highlighting the main issues.

Africa Geographic

[Your Name Here] — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:46:06 +0000

SWARA Magazine

[Your Name Here] — Sun, 20 May 2007 08:05:16 +0000

While spending some time diving in Watamu's marine protected area with Aqua Ventures at the beginning of 2007 I went to Malindi to investigate the deaths of several whale sharks who drowned in large drift nets off the coast. I published a feature in the East African Wildlife Society's SWARA magazine to raise public awareness of the vulnerability of whale sharks. Shark fishing is not a sustainable fishery and all over the world shark populations are being exploited to the brink of extinction. Education and sustainable tourism may be the key to saving these gentle giants.