The arrival of the rains not only triggers striking changes in the landscape with the vegetation turning from brown yellow to lush green, but it also brings an amazing diversity of insects and other creepy-crawlies out. If you are Read more

Updated: Jan 25, 2022

The roof top of the Visitor Centre is the best spot to watch the sunset (or the sunrise if you are a morning person…), so it should come as no surprise that animals also choose Read more

As with other protected areas in the world, Etosha National Park in north-western Namibia has similar problems with humans and dangerous wildlife cooccurring together. People have two major sources of livelihood here i.e., livestock and game farming. The park Read more

Updated: Jan 21, 2022

Every year after the first significant rains, we are witnesses to one of Nature’s fantastic shows: the flight of termites. This is the time when alates (individuals with wings) leave their colonies to mate and Read more

During field trips around Ongava, we see some termite mounds surrounded by areas of bare ground, while other mounds have shrubs, trees and grasses growing nearby. Why the difference, and could the soil around the bare mounds contain a Read more