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Odzala - Ndzehi Concession and Marantaceae Forest - Scott Ramsay, Congo Conservation Company (Travel Africa magazine)

The green heart: trees of life

Trees tend to get in the way on safari. They hide more exciting things like leopards, gorillas and red-crested turacos. But take the time to simply sit in an African forest — senses wide open — and you’ll experience something just as rewarding as an encounter with a great ape or big cat. By William Gray.

Leopard in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. By Ondrej Prosicky, Shutterstock

The L word

“Hold on. I think I saw… Was that some kind of… Can you go back a second?” It’s around 7.45am on Friday 18 August, 1989. The words, or something similar, are my mother’s. They herald a moment that I have been trying to imagine for much of my life. Forget space travel or scoring the …

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