More news from ‘Further Down South’ …

ENJOY THE LATEST #TOURISM AND #CONSERVATION NEWS FROM #ZAMBIA, #ZIMBABWE AND BEYOND – COURTESY OF GILL STADEN

(Posted 11th October 2017)

https://thelivingstoneweekly.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/tlbw11oct17-compressed.pdf

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Benje says ban plastic bags

Western Province calls for Livingstone-Sesheke road to be repaired

LAPS vaccinates animals in Livingstone

Livingstone Business Directory printed

A Window on Zambia back on line

Forest Reserve in Lusaka Degazetted

Monkeys release back into Kafue National Park

Obituary for David Shepherd

Sepo, Lady Liuwa’s pride companion dies

Buffalo increasing in Liuwa

Lupande lioness has cubs after horrific snaring in 2013

New Camera Traps in Lower Zambezi

Large Elephant herd spotted in Sioma Ngwezi during collaring exercise

Tusk Awards

Golf Tournament raises funds for Victoria Falls conservation

New HQ in Mana Pools

Lion de-snared in Matetsi

Painted dog pack now numbers 20 in Hwange

Donkey abattoir for Bulawayo

Elephant Corridor for Kazungula

Elephant electrocuted near Sua

Lion-proof cattle kraals in Caprivi

No bail for elephant poachers in Katima

Over 100 hippos die of anthrax in Mahango Region of Bwabwata

Burying a whale on Namibia’s coast

Aerial Census in Angola section of KAZA

Some Videos:

Frankfurt Zoological Society

Located on the Zambian shores of Lake Tanganyika, an aquatic world in itself, Nsumbu is a wildlife refuge, a unique ecosystem and the youngest of Frankfurt Zoological Society’s projects in Africa.

https://youtu.be/EMN5cxmm1VI

Tusk Awards

This year’s Tusk Awards

https://web.facebook.com/tusk.org/videos/1717203274964854/

Congratulations to Rian Labuschagne, the 2017 winner of the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa!

https://web.facebook.com/tusk.org/videos/1724436047574910/

Save Pangolins

We love this video of a pangolin with an incredible, long tail and gorgeous scales. It appears to be a white-bellied pangolin, one of four pangolin species that lives in Africa.

https://web.facebook.com/SavePangolins/videos/1705100766191009/

Plastic

https://web.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/10154815712271479/