Feb 20

Feb 20 TWA: THE AFRICA JOURNAL

SUTTON CAMP, ZULULAND

This is our home for a few weeks and the place that has shaped our first impressions of Africa.

This incredibly beautiful grassland is so vast that it reminds us of the ocean, but instead of water is made of soil and grass. And instead of waves its forged by hill tops, flat stretches and valleys.

It’s incredibly diverse and it’s the home of a big variety of animals, from tinny termites to the iconic “big five”: Buffalo, African Rhino, African Elephant, Lions and (our ultimate favorite) Leopards.

At the camp, the animals who aren’t shy enough to show themselves are zebras, #impalas, #nyalas #kudus and warthogs. They like to hang out close to the camp as it functions as a refuge from their more mysterious predators.

Here, in Zululand, grass is king as its the most important element that keeps the diversity flowing, alive and changing through out the seasons.

Land animals are unable to migrate long distances, as they have done for millions of years, due to human expansion: highways, farms, fences, cities, man made boarders, structures, water dams and pollution.

And this has changed the face of wildlife ecosystems around the world.

Today wild-life reserves, such as this one, have to be managed by humans; And that is no easy task.

We are SO lucky to be able to get first hand information from an extremely intelligent, prepared and giving group of people who dedicate their lives to conservation.