May 2013: 20 years of celebrating Africa
Africa Geographic is 20 years old. Founder Peter Borchert reflects back to the origins of the magazine in 1993 and finds some good news spanning the intervening two decades. We have celebrated the...
View ArticleFounder’s note: June 2013
In November 1973 a young American paleontologist by the name of Donald Johansson made a startling discovery in the mountainous, inhospitable and wiltingly hot Harar region of Ethiopia. He noticed the...
View ArticleFounder’s Note: July 2013
Drama at the waterhole In the July issue of Africa Geographic (currently on sale) my attention was immediately grabbed by the combination of Tim Jackson’s eloquently explained ecology of fear and...
View ArticleFounder’s Note: August 2013
On a recent grey winter’s afternoon I found myself in the small town of Velddrif on South Africa’s West Coast about 150 kilo metres north of Cape Town. It is one of the less charming of the...
View ArticleFounder’s Editorial: September 2013
I remember reading some time ago a pronouncement by a high-ranking Chinese bureaucrat on the relative irrelevance of wilderness and biodiversity in Chinese society. This provocative premise seemed to...
View ArticleFounder’s Editorial: October 2013
This October Africa Geographic's Founder, Peter Borchert, shares with us his views on hunting and how it has evolved over the decades.
View ArticleFounder’s Editorial: November 2013
In my previous note I nailed my colours to the mast in respect of trophy hunting and I stand my ground on that score. I do realise, however, that monetising wildlife, as well as the space it occupies,...
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