Category: Conservation

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Less than five miles from downtown Nairobi, a wildebeest grazes in East Africa's most unusual national park. The city and suburbs (see map) hem the park on all but one side. Continuing sprawl threatens to encircle the park.

Success is Spoiling Nairobi’s Suburban Wilderness

Nairobi, Kenya   From the traffic jams and high-rise office buildings of downtown Nairobi it is just five miles to the Pleistocene age of mammals. On the outskirts of this burgeoning metropolis of nearly 600,000 there remains a remarkable concentration of wildlife, the like of

Boyce Rensberger June 29, 1973
The Cove at Grand Gaube

Riders Together

A Morning’s Journey on December 31, 1969, into the Lagoon at Grand Gaube, a Fishing Village at Cap Malheureux on the Southern Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius Cast of Characters Octavius Antonius Marie (Octave), age 27 An unemployed Creole stone mason who has taken to

Richard Critchfield February 15, 1970