Tanzania is well known for its tea. Chai tea is drunk every day and Tanzanians are proud of the various local tea types produced in the country. Entering Tanzania with a couple of suitcases full of generic Lipton teabags (other brands available)…Read more
Vultures and other avian scavengers characteristically circle the skies, scanning the ground for carcasses. New research has revealed that these birds can, in addition to sight, respond to auditory cues indicative of potential foraging opportunities. To date, Africa’s vultures have been thought to rely exclusively on eyesight whilst foraging. This may be either through the
A brand new open access e-book helps future conservation scientists prepare themselves for interdisciplinary research with collaborators from diverse backgrounds. How can young conservation scientists learn to be tolerant and work with diverse partners to produce better science in order to save nature? Dr. Mary Mildred Stith, one of the authors of the new open
Humans have altered terrestrial ecosystems to such a degree that the Earth’s most recent geological time period is referred to as the Anthropocene; the epoch influenced by man. Habitats are degraded so rapidly…Read more
Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s novel, “The Giving Tree”, details the relationship between a boy and a tree. In the course of the boy’s life the tree provides the boy with everything: Read more
AfricanBioServices has created its own board game that informs local communities about conservation in East Africa while they are having fun. Read more
At the end of a field trip at the border of Maasai Mara National Park, Kenya, interviewing local communities, I had a bright idea that our community facilitator owned land and could fill in one of our interview questionnaires. Read more
We, Marit, Vilde and Anders, all Norwegian master students in Ecology and Natural Resources Management, headed out to Serengeti one after the other from January to the end of December 2017. Read more
Crossing the Kenya border around re-election time can really make you nervous but thankfully, everything went well. Read more
Will a program about ecosystems and ecosystem services affect the views or be of any interest to people living in the Serengeti-Mara-ecosystem? Read more
