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🌅 Last night's welcome sundowner 🌅 There's n

🌅 Last night's welcome sundowner 🌅
There's no doubting the impact and toll that covid has had on everyone and everything. It has kept us from the people we love, the places we love and often the things we love doing. At Askari we were closed to visitors for a whole year; slowly but steadily our volunteers are coming back and it really is the BEST feeling. This post by one of our most loyal, returning volunteers just sums it up perfectly. So good to be reuniting with old friends and welcoming new ones to become part of the ever-growing Askari family.

"At long last, I've finally made it back to the most special of places - where time slows down, the 'noise' of the modern world is muted and all there is to do is look, listen and learn. Here's to some epic adventures over the next 8 weeks @askariwcp
And to all those Askarians who haven't had the chance to return yet, I'm carrying a piece of all of you with me on this trip" @naturebynats

Congratulations to Nathan @belgiantraveler who too

Congratulations to Nathan @belgiantraveler who took this month's winning photograph. This flap-necked chameleon pic, taken on one of our nocturnal monitoring drives, was your clear favourite and goes forward to the grand, end of year, final. Well done Nathan

Thank you for all your votes so far in the March #

Thank you for all your votes so far in the March #askariphotocompetition. Tonight is your last chance to choose your favourite before the winner is counted tomorrow so head on over to our Facebook page to vote. 2019's winner by @audthebelge looks awesome hanging in the house.

Mixed signals for poor old 'Zamula' this morning.

Mixed signals for poor old 'Zamula' this morning. But by this afternoon, his patience paid off and mating was underway

🐆 International Leopard day 🐆 To raise aware

🐆 International Leopard day 🐆
To raise awareness for declining leopard species (across the world). The biggest threats to our African population are damage-causing animal control, trophy hunting & harvesting for traditional medicine and ceremonies, snaring and poisoning

A beautiful sunset sighting of the Askari pride fo

A beautiful sunset sighting of the Askari pride for the team, right on the door step
📸@ehlathini_photography

Some fantastic reptile sightings this week. 2 diff

Some fantastic reptile sightings this week. 2 different Schlegel's blind snake encounters and a flap-necked chameleon.....not commonly seen exhibiting this cool orange colour!

Another amazing leopard sighting for the team this

Another amazing leopard sighting for the team this week. We're going to have to give this guy a name the amount of quality time we're spending together

'International hyaena day' You know that we don't

'International hyaena day'
You know that we don't need a special day to appreciate these amazing, curious, complex creatures at Askari! But the 27th April is set aside to recognise the importance of hyaena in the ecosystem and defy their often unfair reputation.
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There are 4 species to celebrate...the spotted hyaena, brown hyaena (pictured here), striped hyaena and Aardwolf

A great few sightings of 'Zamula' and a female so

A great few sightings of 'Zamula' and a female so far this week....looks like she has been putting him in his place!

We're really getting to know this guy, another mag

We're really getting to know this guy, another magical sighting today

A recent sighting with our beautiful Rae 📸@belg

A recent sighting with our beautiful Rae
📸@belgiantraveler

🌳🌿 BLYDE RIVER CANYON ☘🌱 Such beauty ri

🌳🌿 BLYDE RIVER CANYON ☘🌱
Such beauty right on our doorstep! Did you know that when visiting Askari, you are just an hour away from the 3rd largest (and the largest green) canyon IN THE WORLD!
This morning the team were up and out early to catch a gap in the weather to cruise the beautiful Blyde dam. Some bird specials included half-collared kingfisher and Trumpeter hornbill as well as cormorants, darters, hippos and the most breathtaking scenery.
As if you needed another reason to come to Askari? But there, you've got one anyway.
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Check our story for more beautiful views 🌱☘🌿🌳

🐣 Wishing all our followers a very Happy Easter

🐣 Wishing all our followers a very Happy Easter 🐣. Paradise Flycatcher chicks in the Askari garden
📷 Anna Cornelsen

It's not all glitz and glamour! The team joined As

It's not all glitz and glamour! The team joined Assistant manager Andrew last week to help with the fixing of a water pipe. This ongoing maintenance is essential and never ending. The animals must drink!

About last night.....🌅

About last night.....🌅

These predators were determined to gate crash our

These predators were determined to gate crash our herbivore count yesterday. Would you have argued with them?! 😂
📷@ehlathini_photography

This beauty was removed from the Askari garden yes

This beauty was removed from the Askari garden yesterday and returned to the bush. It is a puff adder, a common venomous snake in our area with cytotoxic venom. Although slow moving it has one of the fastest strikes....opening the mouth, extending fangs, injecting venom and closing again in less than quarter of a second. Check our story for release

Some time spent with the girls of the Askari pride

Some time spent with the girls of the Askari pride this morning

Catching up on recent events and the team have bee

Catching up on recent events and the team have been busy with some bird atlassing. What is bird atlassing you may ask?!

It is a citizen science project which not only means you get to enhance your inner 'bird nerd' but you also assist with mapping the distribution and relative abundance of birds in southern Africa! Win win 🥳.

The team drove a specifically selected geographical 'pentad' and recorded all birds seen in that area in a set period of time. Our results are submitted to the database which is then used for research and analysis by several agencies including the South African National Biodiversity Institute and Birdlife SA.

Our atlassing drive also meant volunteers Dani and Nathan were able to list enough birds to attempt their Level 2 & 3 bird nerd awards. Huge congratulations to both for then also passing their respective quiz and receiving their Bird nerd patches

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