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And some Kruger birds as promised. Among them you'

And some Kruger birds as promised. Among them you'll see a few of the migratory species including a Diederik cuckoo and our first Woodland kingfisher of the season. Another great and unusual sighting was Glossy ibis and of course we always love the Ground hornbills

Yesterday the team spent a fantastic day in the Kr

Yesterday the team spent a fantastic day in the Kruger National Park where the overwhelming theme was elephants! So many fantastic elephant sightings with plenty of impressive bulls and cute babies thrown in! No trip to Kruger is complete without lots of great birds too so they'll follow in the next post

We've now seen impala lambs on all the different s

We've now seen impala lambs on all the different sections of the reserve and today, our first warthog piglets too 😍

Yesterday was a great day to cruise the Olifants R

Yesterday was a great day to cruise the Olifants River. Among our sightings were a Western Osprey, elephants, hippo, crocodiles and plenty more birds and herbivores

What an incredible and lucky leopard sighting for

What an incredible and lucky leopard sighting for the team during our nocturnal monitoring last night. Thanks so much to Margaux for the awesome filming 🤗🐆

The team have been busy with a variety of projects

The team have been busy with a variety of projects this week including seeding, road-clearing for brushpacking and gabions to prevent erosion. Great work team 👍🏻

Our 1st impala lamb of the season! 🥳🥳. Can y

Our 1st impala lamb of the season! 🥳🥳. Can you believe it? We're not even in November yet! Part of an awesome and hot morning out in the bush this morning 🥵

A little spotted hyaena action for the team yester

A little spotted hyaena action for the team yesterday

What an unusual and amazing sighting this morning

What an unusual and amazing sighting this morning for the team. A Southern yellow-billed hornbill eating a Black-headed centipede-eater. Shortly after these photos were taken the whole snake was gobbled up and disappeared!

*JANUARY - MARCH 2022 BOOKINGS* We had quite a few

*JANUARY - MARCH 2022 BOOKINGS*
We had quite a few enquiries this year from Askarians wanting to join us in January, February or March of 2022. Initially we were full, but with our usual college group not being able to travel, we now have SPACES!

I have tried to get in touch with everyone who enquired but if I missed you, please drop us an email, a Facebook or an Instagram message :)

Poor Luca is in the wars again and the team had to

Poor Luca is in the wars again and the team had to intervene to help. During our routine checks, we noticed that he had a very swollen back foot. With no obvious sign of what was wrong, Dr Pete Rogers of Provet Animal Hospital was called in to take a look. Once under anaesthetic, Dr Rogers began an inspection. Unfortunately it wasn't good news when Dr Rogers said he could feel some broken bones inside. With so much swelling it was hard to tell the extent of the damage so Luca was taken through to the surgery for x-ray. All 4 metatarsals were broken, we suspect from having been jarred into a hole. The foot was bandaged to be held in place and treatment started to reduce the swelling. Luca has kindly been taken in by the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre who will now care for him through his recovery (expected to be around 3 months). At this time it is not clear how the foot will heal and whether Luca will be able to run and hunt again. We are hoping for the best and that, once healed, he will be able to go back to the wild life he has become accustomed to

This was one very lucky encounter for the team! As

This was one very lucky encounter for the team! As we drove around the corner, this amazing sight was waiting for us...a snouted cobra had recently caught a rodent and took it off into the bush. Now that's not something you see every day!

Catching up on some news from last week....a fanta

Catching up on some news from last week....a fantastic sighting of the Askari pride at the end of the driveway

The Askari team are waiting for you! We are fully

The Askari team are waiting for you! We are fully vaccinated and ready to host your trip into the wilderness. Come and experience life in the bush and join our conservation team.

November - 2 spaces
January - SPACES
February - SPACES
March - SPACES
April - FULL
May - 4 spaces
June - SPACES
July - FULL

Such a cool and unique sighting today of a Wahlber

Such a cool and unique sighting today of a Wahlberg's eagle. Its very unusual to see them on the ground....and so close by. This one however had a feast it daren't leave, a colony of African thief ants. The ants release winged females after heavy summer rains which is exactly what we had yesterday with our 23mm. Check our story for the video action.

A #womeninscience feature from Lighthouse Field St

A #womeninscience feature from Lighthouse Field Station - University of Aberdeen about Askari's very own Katie and her journey from studying the seabirds of Orkney to the adventures of the African bush at Askari

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sbs/documents/Katie%20Rooke%20profile.pdf

Excitement levels were through the roof for the te

Excitement levels were through the roof for the team this morning as we spotted an incredibly unusual vulture. This palm-nut vulture is well out of range and shouldn't be anywhere near Pidwa, it was definitely a historical first for the reserve. Unlike other vultures, these feed on the flesh of palm fruits as well as crabs and frogs and some carrion.

We have since learnt that there has been the odd sighting of, what is presumed to be, the same individual in the area in the past year.

We have reported the sighting to the SARBN (South African Rare Bird News) as this information and location will be used when producing range maps for this species in the future. An incredibly lucky first for the Askari team and Pidwa

Today the team met one of the venomous snakes to i

Today the team met one of the venomous snakes to inhabit Pidwa....a puff adder. This is a very slow moving snake but the fastest striking. They carry a cytotoxic venom which eats away at the walls of our cells causing necrosis. Luckily this one was viewed from a very safe distance and relocated back to the bush

A great sighting this week for the team of an unus

A great sighting this week for the team of an unusual melanistic Gabar goshawk. Thanks for the pic Lorenza

It was a muddy but succesful morning at Klip pan f

It was a muddy but succesful morning at Klip pan for the team, removing regrowth of encroaching bull rushes

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🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Travel from the UK to South Africa is OPEN 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧.

That's right, we've got something to shout about! South Africa has officially been removed from the 'Red list' and as of Monday (literally 3 days away), travel to SA is back.

Our whole team is fully vaccinated and just a negative PCR test is needed to enter South Africa. We have 4 spaces left for October and just 2 for November!!

We can't wait to see you in the bush 🥳🥳

#askariwcp

Yesterday the team spent a fantastic day in the Kr

Yesterday the team spent a fantastic day in the Kruger National Park with brilliant bird and mammal sightings. As well as elephant, lion, buffalo and general game we had a very special Roan antelope sighting and also some Tsessebe. Amongst our birds were Martial eagles and yellow-billed oxpecker and a great aerial display of Blacksmith lapwings mobbing an African fish-eagle

🐕 World Animal Day 🐕 And what better way to

🐕 World Animal Day 🐕
And what better way to spend it than hands on with HoedspruitAnimaLOutreach. HALO do the most fantastic work....vaccinating, sterilising, educating and providing free healthcare to the dogs in our surrounding communities. The team joined to help today and were able to assist with the medical care of so many dogs. It was a busy but brilliant morning working with this fantastic organisation

We also had an amazing elephant sighting this week

We also had an amazing elephant sighting this weekend

So much to catch up on.....starting with our fanta

So much to catch up on.....starting with our fantastic sighting of mating lions this week, at the end of our driveway!

Cooking bread on the fire.....that can only mean o

Cooking bread on the fire.....that can only mean one thing. It's sleep-out time 🤗

This morning the team joined for the release of a

This morning the team joined for the release of a herd of Mountain reedbuck onto the reserve

"Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the d

"Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take"

.Angela Blount.

Tonight's Askari sunset

A fantastic lion sighting for the team this weeken

A fantastic lion sighting for the team this weekend. Thanks Lorenza for the amazing photo #askariwcp

"Only a rhino needs its horn". Celebrating these s

"Only a rhino needs its horn". Celebrating these special animals on #worldrhinoday

A succesful afternoon of cheetah monitoring for th

A succesful afternoon of cheetah monitoring for the team. Luca was using a large termite mound as a vantage point in these crazy windy conditions. Rae had caught herself an impala meal and we also saw a rare (to Pidwa) Coqui francolin

Saying a sad farewell to "Coffee, Tea, Chutney". T

Saying a sad farewell to "Coffee, Tea, Chutney". Thank you all for an amazing month in the bush together and all your efforts towards conservation at Askari

A morning drive to the hippo pools 🦛🐊

A morning drive to the hippo pools 🦛🐊

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