Becoming The White Masai
Reading The White Masai several years ago, I was fascinated by the author’s decision to marry a Masai man. It required her to leave Germany and acclimate to his culture and […]
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy – A Success Story
The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy occupies a relatively small 62,000 acres in northern Kenya but its role as a conservation innovator extends far beyond its borders. The Conservancy and surrounding areas contain […]
Baby Jane Goodall’s First Adventure
On an April day in 1934 a new mother was discharged from a London maternity home, along with her baby girl. Deeming her husband’s Aston Martin race- car too dangerous […]
Becoming An Animal Communicator
I’m sitting in a circle of women (and one man) in a living room lined with overstuffed chairs, small porcelain replicas of cats and dogs, and flowered wallpaper. A golden […]
The Jane Goodall Effect Lives On
Hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot, the sound rose from the shadowed forest, echoing across the humid air of Gombe. Sitting around a bonfire on the shore of Lake Tanganyika my safari group froze mid-sip, […]