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habitat), and the Convention on International Trade and in Endangered Species (CITES, 1973)
return trip.
Wildlife Restorancy, Adventure, and Biodiversity:
This topic is about a trip to Southern Africa, primarily illustrating how hunter-gatherer
attitudes influence us today and secondly how the global issues of land degradation, water
resources, climate, struggles of third world countries, protein shortage, disease, biodiversity,
and struggles of conservation affect us, and finally to show that conservation is no longer
sufficient. Rather we need to focus on the restoration of habitat, ecosystems, communities, and
wild animals, which we label “sustainable restorancy.” We use this word “restorancy”
because conservation and conservancy imply maintaining the status quo, however, in so many
areas the habitat has been decimated and it is no longer a matter of conserving it but rather the
environment needs to be restored and wild animals reintroduced to a restorancy. Both of us
have a great concern for people, wildlife, and habitat, particularly of Southern Africa and often
return to Africa. As the Zulu saying goes, “once you have tasted the waters of Africa you will
always return.”
Any trip to Southern Africa is an adventure unless you are picked up at the airport and
whisked off to some meeting and do not set foot on African dirt. By definition, an adventure is
the travel to a different place for a new experience involving some degree of personal,
physical, psychological, or financial risk, with little likelihood of reward, other than the
intense memories. Hence, most trips to Southern Africa, whether eco-tourism, “going to the
game reserve,” photographic safaris, or hunting, are brief adrenaline rush experiences of great
intensity with unpredictable and random events or outcomes.
These are interspersed during the day by interludes of relaxation and admiration of the
African Bushveld and evenings of reposed reflection with friends and family, frequently
around a campfire enjoying fine African food and wine,
Setting around campfire
often with venison, and looking up at the crystal clear night sky with the Southern Cross and
Milky Way above. On this trip, during such evenings we discussed Africa and the United
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