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going places

Much of Angola’s wildlife was lost to civil war; now, thanks to years of dedicated conservation efforts, the country and its parks are on their way to becoming Africa’s newest safari star, writes Ian Packham

Sheltering an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, including western lowland gorillas and forest elephants, is a vast, little-visited tropical rainforest known as the ‘lungs of Africa’. Odzala-Kokoua National Park lies deep in the Republic of Congo and is protected by locals on a mission to guard and conserve the natural wonders on their doorstep

AS the days remain dark and gloomy in the UK and our garden plants retreat from winter’s chill, the flowers in the Southern Hemisphere continue to open their petals to a glorious summer. Like the flow

The leading conservationists tell Niall Hampton about their Sacred Nature Initiative

I magine you’re in Nebraska, standing on North America’s Great Plains, where the broad Platte and Missouri rivers join on their way to the mighty Mississippi. It’s 1804, and in the blistering 36°C hea