I was lucky enough to go to a Zulu wedding this afternoon. It was a wedding within the community where I am currently staying, and although I didn't know the bride or the groom, and hadn't been invited, I was assured it was ok for me to go to the wedding. As it turned out, a number of the people there didn't know the bride or the groom either - it's the norm to go to a wedding of a stranger, and not to need an invitation. The ceremony consisted of lots of dan...

Q: so what do 8 cows, 1 bull, 14 goats, 4 chickens, and 1 dog have in common? A: they were all happily using the playground of the school that I went to this morning. As well as endangered and threatened species work, the organisation that I am volunteering with also does some work within the community. One area that they are involved with is in-school ecology and conservation lessons, which they run through the year at the local schools as part of the regula...

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...