From Safari to Serengeti: The Best Places to See Wildlife in Africa
What is a safari or game hunting when it comes to Africa game hunting?
A safari or game hunting in Africa refers to a recreational activity where individuals go on a guided or self-guided expedition to observe or hunt wild animals in their natural habitats. The term "safari" originated in East Africa and means "journey" or "expedition" in Swahili.
Lions and Tigers and Giraffes, Oh My! A Guide to African Wildlife
Safaris can take many forms, from guided tours in a vehicle or on foot to hunting trips where participants are accompanied by trained guides and trackers. Game hunting, which is legal in some African countries, involves hunting and killing wild animals for sport or food. However, it is important to note that many African countries have strict laws and regulations around hunting, with some species being protected or off-limits for hunting altogether.
In recent years, the focus of safaris has shifted towards wildlife conservation and responsible tourism, with many companies offering eco-friendly and sustainable safari experiences. These types of safaris prioritize the observation and preservation of wildlife in their natural habitats, while minimizing the impact on the environment and supporting local communities.
Is Africa being the continent with all
its glamour of visiting and being depicted as what would be a safari with out
hunting for game? All over the globe man has has slowly tamed the wilderness
all the way from the Arctic circle to the Cape of Good hope in Africa and deep
in the Australia jungles. Just for the sake of animal hunting, man has pushed
deeper in many of the world tropical rain forest pipping his nose against the
ruthless terror of the jungles which are richly infested with animals of
different sizes big animals small animals venomous insects, poisonous plants
and dangerous animal attacks along the way.
In many of the African jungles,
many have made safaris come hunting for game in these hunting territories
resisted man with miles of dangerous jungles,
swamps infested by the African Nile crocodiles and the great
hippopotamus, grassland full of lions, leopards cheetahs rhinos buffaloes
and many of the beautiful animals
roaming the African Savannah south of the Sahara Desert just for the sake of
game hunting and reasons best known to them as to really what is a safari for
them.
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Having an access a safari to these hunting areas, many
hunters while on their hunting outfitters would battle rapids, waterfalls and
crocodiles of different sizes. Their great African safari dugout canoes would
be just too flimsy and would easily tip over in these dangerous African great
rivers if one had opted to get into the deep jungles of Africa
for the best hunting places.
Off the Beaten Path: Exploring the Hidden Gems of Africa
From the early 1900s Africa
for hunting safaris was "The Place" for the rich and the royal to go
hunting. have the odds changed now that the world is a global village where you
can hunt in the Amazon forest and take a cool refreshing breeze at the
beautiful sandy beaches of Mombasa
at the Kenyan coast. What came along was the most common Tsetse fly which
causes sleeping sickness. Many of the wild animals which live in these hunting
areas were immune to the tsetse fly.
Humans have been part of this world and have evolved from
the primitive gathers and gone to be part of the hunters cultured which was
instilled from out great fore fathers. With the demise of many wild animals
which was a source of food in most of the jungles and a source of proteins,
hunting of wild animals was still carried out in may of the continents not just
as a sport but to quench the hunger and the lust to many of the few hunters who
had the guts to venture into such an enduring hunting spirit not born within.
Despite Africa being an elephant country,
elephant meat was a great delicacy.
Game Hunting: The Thrill of the Hunt in Africa
With the turn of the Century, I guess many of the modern
hunters hunters associate Africa or the Dark Continent with the big game
hunting or Big Five species which are mostly hunting of the African Lion, the
African forest elephant, the rhino, the buffalo and the fastest animal on earth
the cheetah ("Dangerous Game") On the other hand, many of the great
African entertainments are the outstanding rich flora and fauna which has a
rich and welcoming hospitality with romantic traditional tented safaris allover
the African continent which is a must see for all those animal loving souls.
With many geopolitics and Geo economis being part of our
daily hustle sand bustles, a lot of changes are now the order of the day where
by, both human rights are to be followed and at the same time as little as an
African ant is, its all animal rights
are to be extended to it as well. With many of the worlds animal becoming
extinct, many are now on the endangered list and there is a need to do
something about it not for the sake of future generation but for the sake of
what belongs to the planet and has equal right as you and me. Having no
yardstick to assist in what needs to be hunted and what is just there to be
adored as opposed for the sake of big game trophies
Safari Diaries: Tales from the African Wilderness
The Maasai tribe in many parts of East
Africa it was a life for a life. The your Maasai had to undergo an
initiation stage, the councilor elders used to decide who would be sent out
after the lions. these Masai have been
accustomed to live with the lions as they have been known as Man Eaters and in
constant touch eating their cows. The
chosen Masai worrier would only put on a fantastic head dress which is made up
of ostrich feather. This was as important to the hunt as it was to the spear.
Not all Maasai were allowed to go on the
hunt as the chief could only take along those who were chosen by the council to
go for the lion hunting. Most of the younger worriers hunters would wear head
dresses mane from the mane of the lions as all their lives they have lived on
animal food, blood and water and they would respect the lion they hunt. The
animal hunters faces legs and chest would be painted red, yellow and white with
reasons best known to them during the animal hunting of the day with a
substance made from the ashes with a previously killed lion. Naked or half
naked they would carry along with them a long bladed spear with a buffalo hides
shield skins colored with bold patterns would put their hearts out during the
lion hunt.
Game Hunting: The Thrill of the Hunt in Africa
All morning the tireless Maasai worriers hunters would
advance the grassy plains and the long lions. the would beat a cross a circle
12 miles in diameter. The hunters wound form a circle around the beast. The razor
sharp spear heads melt like silver in the sun rays. In small groups the Maasai
hunters would come closer and gradually for the ring of death. One by one they
would take their place in the ring and when the Maasai hunter are near enough
crouch behind their shields. With a spear in the hand of the Maasai lion hunter
and their fierce ego leaning facing over the realms.
With the Maasai hunters
shields held steady and high enough to protect the body and quivering spears
poised for some action, the Maasai hunters would charge towards the hunted
animal. When the ring of death is complete, the hunted lion has nothing to
stand against these trained hunters. The secret to the most important part of
the animal hunt was that the death ring must not be broken what ever the cost.
For the man who ever steps back in the face of a charge is for ever branded a
coward. Once the lion charges, it would be met with a dozen spears and within a
matter of seconds the hunted animal would be down and with a result of shouting
and chanting.
They would worship the lions power with deep respect just after
the hunt where by the elders used to. With different hunting techniques among
the safari hunters, those who came to Africa to hunt for the big game trophies
you find that leopard hunting used to take place or hunting the traditional
manner (from a blind over bait). While some animal hunting used trackers or
dogs during their hunting expeditions.
Game On: Hunting the Big Five in Africa
Despite the fact that hunting of the big five is not allowed
in many parts of the world, there are still a few countries in Africa where hunting safaris of wild animals is till
allowed. The Cape Buffalo which is one of the top ten most dangerous animal in
the world is one of Africa's biggest animal that are available hunt for the big
game trophies due to their bounty in the private cattle ranches.
With all right
hunting documents and papers in place, these African safari hunting of
buffaloes go for $10-15K as compared to
a domestic cow which is almost worth
perhaps $500. Buffalo
hunts are very popular and widely available and the hunting of them is as
hair-raising as ever. Not may people in
the world are for the idea of such hunting activities now that many of the
existing animals have little natural habitat and breeding grounds and not for
getting that many of the animal migration corridors have been replaced with
tarmac roads, high rise buildings and fenced or protected farmlands which are
to cater for the continuous supply of food to the already six billion hungry
mouths to feed.
Take a Walk on the Wild Side: A Beginner's Guide to African Safaris
Way back in the 1800s, people from all walk of life from
Europe, Asia and the Americas
came to Africa to hunt. Africa
was the land of dangerous wild animals plenty and people would make these great
safaris for the sake of big game
trophies. Who wouldn't want to make news about Africa
while going back from an African safari hunting holiday? This was just the epic
of the great many a safaris to Africa which
were to come hence forth.
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The list of countries where one can still hunt the Big
Five or for the big game trophies is
dwindling, and the cost of these hunts is now beyond the reach of many people
who would have loved to go hunting on their African Safari holiday. For the
moment South Africa in the whole world is where one can go for animal hunting
and is allowed to hunt any kind of animals available in the country and
specially allowed to hunt the lion, the African elephant, the African
buffaloes, the rhino and the cheetah also know as the five legally.
The big game trophies hunting of
these animals is always done in special designated hunting grounds or animal
habitat where the population of the animals to be hunted is beyond the carrying
capacity thereby giving the need to reduce the animal population in that area
but hunting them down. While many eyebrows may be raised in terms of this
hunting spree, many animal experts say that the hunting or reducing of such
animals in a given habitat is healthy of rt he existence of the ecosystem.
With
rising costs of maintaining many of the national and reserved animal sanctuaries,
revenues generated help maintain and promote such facilities and as a result a
continuous healthy breeding of the same is of the top most priority. While
countries such as Namibia
might allow you to hunt, the African rhino is just one of the African animal
which is not easy to opt as an animal for hunting during your Africa 's
adventurous animal safari hunt
The Call of the Wild: Answering the African Safari's Siren Song
What is a safari in these beautiful African safari countries such in Tanzania ,
Zambia , Zimbabwe , parts of Namibia ,
Mozambique
and several Central and Western African countries who would think that hunting
safaris and hunting expeditions are still organized as part of the traditions
according to the existing laws of the country for the big game trophies.
You
get that whether small animals or big animal safari hunting what ever goes
depending on the nature of the hunting safari and the hunting season, the
hunting designated areas and localities are at the stake of the local
governments and for many countries, this has come at a time when the credit
crunch is just one area where hunting of animals is just a cushion for the
little source of foreign currency.
With few water catchment areas and scarcity
of water not only for the local inhabitants, animals in these areas are well
adopted to such regions grazing on the few herbs and scrubs in these sparsely
barren lands where not a grain can stand out to blossom in the ever changing
global warming. So with n water for
agriculture to sustain the population, tsetse flies are just the hunting
enemies of man day in and day out which has resulted in these hunting grounds t
o be designated as fit for hunting.
One would wonder where is all that
technology to revamp these barren lands to rich flora and fauna in its original
form instead of spending or reclaiming vast mountains of hunting lands. Nature
really knows when and where to prepare these hunting for the big game trophies
episodes for people to ponder.
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With luck of specialized veterinary doctors and medical
facilities, you find that hunting or rhinos is just not the animal to be hunted
for the big game trophies while any lion hunting is just out of the question as
many of the lions are just too few to be finished and a lot to lose as would be the case for
these countries which allow animal hunting to be carried out. With break downs
of feline, this dangerous animal disease has hunted many of the lions and
brought them down.
As a result, the number of lions has gone down and with many
of the hue and cry from the farmers who co inhabit the animal habitats have
always hunted these man eaters and leopards down as they have always hunted
their animals or cattle for ages. that has reduced lion numbers in recent
years, and the fact that lions and humans, particularly cattle farmers, do not
get along well.
In many African great safari destinations leopard are found
and hunted for the big game trophies in every country in Southern Africa but Botswana has
put an end of hunting of the leopard due to its strong eco-tourist industry and
helping reviving many of the endangered animals species in the region as well.
While at the moment grounds have been made to help save the
African elephant at the same time these great beautiful African Elephant are
just some of Africa's elephants species that have seen their numbers go up to
the point where there are far too many elephant African elephants for the
remaining habitat in many Southern African countries.
As far as the yardstick
for measuring the "Number of African elephants being plenty" for may African countries which depend on
tourism and for the welfare of these
African wild animals such bases are not
true in the rest of Africa, particularly those countries that don't
"get" the economics of big game hunting and have allowed their
elephant populations to dwindle due to lack of habitat and ivory poaching or
what some would say hunting for the sake
of big game trophies.
With a lot of hue
and cry made to stop the sale of ivory and elephant related products some
African countries have the opinion that
the elephants without tusks are easy to get them hunted down as compared to he
cost of a Cape Buffalo hunt while at the same time supporting of exportable
trophy bull elephant hunts. Despite the fact that animal or elephant hunting is
not a good idea to the common man, for those animal hunters, they would go
miles and push over the envelop just to get that elephant which has tusk.
Despite the fact that getting an elephant to hunt or a bull with heavy ivory outside the National
Parks is still a challenge though. To some extent, there are those who would
try to bend the rule here and there to get their job done while creating
problems for the elephant family and great conservation efforts as well. The
amazing fact about elephants is that the African elephants need to live long enough
around 50 year for the elephant to have good tusk. Not may elephants will reach this age if the
poaching continues for us to once again see the giant elephant tusks which once
was the icon of many of the African jungles.
The Call of the Wild: Answering the African Safari's Siren Song
Where would you think the best country or place for the
safari hunting would be. Africa is just a
continent with different geographical boundaries and political boundaries as
well which are very porous. For what has been an ideal destination for big
trophy Elephant is you find that Botswana
is one of Africa 's country, where very large
African elephants are hunted each year at prices that can only be afforded by
the rich. On the other hand Namibia
also follows soot in this vast history of big game hunting for trophies.
With
many of the African elephants population thriving and found in big numbers,
many of the parks and sanctuaries with
Elephant have seen an increase of the elephant populations beyond its carrying capacity of
many national parks and concessions in Southern Africa, as a result of the
decision to end culling in the late 80s (the resulting population
explosion triggered a habitat crisis and
culling was about to resume in South Africa as well as Zimbabwe and possibly
Botswana).
What is true about elephants is that these giant creatures
are the most intelligent dangerous game species and are extremely challenging
to hunt. There are many reasons as to who is to hunt what and how animal should
be hunted down. That being said you find
that hunters have to graduate to start going hunting for bigger prey such as
elephants.
Hippopotamus and the
great Nile crocodiles have become desirable
trophies and the term "Big Five" has been expanded to "Dangerous
Seven" with the inclusion of these two species. Africa
having some of the longest and the deepest rivers in the world have a lot of
Hippopotamus herds in its great rivers. These giant hippos are responsible for
many dangerous animal attacks and cause
of deaths in Africa than any other animal along the shores of these navigable
lakes and rivers of Africa .
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Most of the people who have come to Africa
for the aim of hunting have had an African unique experience. Not just with
nature and the culture, the African wilderness has just been amazing. Every
step the hunters make in the bush has something to learn from it. The great
silence and the just winds which would sweep across your face and along the
spine would just be the adrenaline which a hunter and the hunted would
experience in the wilderness to get things done. Many African safari hunters
have yearned to come back just to have that unique hunting experience in Africa
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