So saving rhinos is always hard, right? Wrong. You can save rhinos, from your sofa - it's even easier than ordering your weekly groceries from Tesco or Ocado! Copy this link into a new window, and sign the petition http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_rhinos/?copy With 171 rhinos already dead in South Africa in 2012 due to poaching, why wait to do something about it?

This morning I went out with 3 rhino monitors, tracking white rhino on foot. Our aim was to find and follow tracks and signs of where white rhino had been, and to try to get a visual of as many rhinos as possible - primarily to confirm they were still alive and in good condition. Monitoring such as this is increasingly important as in South Africa rhinos are being poached at a rate of at least 1 rhino a day. In South Africa in 2010 333 rhinos were killed, and ...

There are some giants out here, such as the giraffe, the rhino, and even some of the beetles and the grasshoppers, and there are also some of the tiniest creatures you could imagine. Zebra are the size of a pony, and yet next to giraffe they look ridiculously small, as though they have stepped into Lilliput from Gulliver's travels. Then there are the big tuskers at Tembe who have tusks so long and heavy they have to rest them in trees! But the real way to appr...

It's getting colder here as winter sets in. The days are shorter, there is more cloud, and I'm wearing socks to bed! This also means that my tan is fading fast, and it wasn't that convincing to start with. So now it means that when I get back to the UK everyone will have a better tan than me from the inevitable fabulous weekend of sunshine just before I land back! I have continued to look as glamorous as ever throughout my time here. The photo attached to th...

Predators eyes are yellow…… As dusk fell we searched for the African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs are now renamed in a campaign to improve their profile). Standing on the back of the landcruiser waving the telemetry aerial in vain, I noted the smell of burnt sugar. As we continued our dog search, so the smell continued. Then there was a lot of smoke. The vehicle radiator had overheated. We were unable to drive any further without cooling the radiator, so w...