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Adventures with Kinglsey Holgate

Adventures with Kinglsey Holgate

Date: 2016-09-30
The Kingsley Holgate Foundation team has recently returned from their "A Journey to Chew Bahir Expedition" - it's a story best told from the scribbles in Kingsley's expedition journal

Mozambique - an Encounter with AK's

Out of military convoy on the last leg to Malawi we're on our own. Unable to make the border in time we camp off the road. At midnight we get hit. AK's in our faces - the soldiers are high on tension and question us, then start forcing us at gunpoint to pack the Disco. Two guys force themselves into the Landy. Drive to the border we're told. At the border compound they take our car keys and passports but allow us to put up a tent. Next morning things have calmed down. 'We thought you were Renamo," said one of the soldiers. "The villagers thought you had come to kill them, they saw your lights in the bush and came to report to us, so we came to kill you..." But all is sorted out and they even sign our expedition Scroll of Peace and Goodwill. Once again it's about risking our own lives to save lives.

Malawi - Largest Movement of Elephants

The hassles with Renamo are behind us now and we're still Land Rovering north towards Ethiopia. In Malawi we share a campfire with our friends from African Parks. Their team of experts are planning to move up to 500 elephants from the beautiful Liwonde National Park on the Shire River and the Majete National Park lower down the Great Rift Valley - to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve some 3 hours away by ' Elephant Transport' up the Lake Shore.

'The reason for all this,' explains African Parks Ops Manager, Lawrence Munro, 'Is that Liwonde simply has too many of these giant pachyderms and it's too close to Mozambican poaching incursions from across the border.' With the moving of elephants to under-utilized Nkhotakota, a new elephant attraction for much needed tourism to Malawi will be created, and some of the ellies of Liwonde and Majete will be given their very best chance to survive and breed. We introduce Elephant Art to the area as part of the Kingsley Holgate Foundations community conservation education programme and do some Rite to Sight and malaria prevention work en-route as we travel through to Tanzania and on to Kenya.