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My contribution for this week’s challenge…
The Future of Africa
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It took only a few moment to select a theme for this week.
I firmly believe that tourists…
both local and international…
being able to visit and sight these wonderful animals provide…
Africa’s economy with a large injection of jobs and cash flow.
I wonder if this young Giraffe is still alive
and being sighted by tourist cameras?
My hope is that this rhino will be as it was living
in a reserve protect by armed soldiers.
Six years ago our own Elle Macpherson was spruiking
that she used rhino horn…
and then apologised for her comments.
I just hope she stopped using as well!
We were told that this cheetah hunts for its food,
however it still came back and acted like
a tabby cat for tourists to pat.
Whether that is right or wrong is up to the reader to decide.
However, I did see on Facebook that if a cat (leopard, I think)
was shot by a trophy hunter it would inject something
like 35,000 Rand (app: AUD$3,094: USD$2,336) into someone’s pocket.
If tourists paid 500 Rand for a sighting of the same cat
it would inject about 85,000 Rand into South Africa’s economy
over the lifetime of the animal.
Apart from currency conversion,
all figures quoted are from memory only.
Dangerous…but what a sight.
I did see herds of thirty or so zebras.
Why shoot them, unless…
it’s with a Nikon, Canon, Pentax Sony etc.
I dream of seeing this again.
We were lucky on our first trip, to see this pride.
We followed leads but could not find
any lions twelve months later.
And as the sun set on our last night at
Sausage Tree Safari Camp (2013)
we spent twenty minutes with these two
and their mother (Limpy, who died in September 2014).
We are constantly reminded of this as we had
one of the photos drawn by a South African artist,
Warren Cary
who draws wonderful pencil drawings.
We think his leopard drawings are wonderful.
And that, my friends,
is the future of Africa,
in my humble opinion.
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