Park Boubandjida Cameroon • Paul Bour Safaris Photo

This season is complete, the camp closed ...

Almost everything is stored in anticipation of the new season ...
Although there have not really liked, nature is beautiful, the air is cleared of all dust from the harmattan, the green replaced the burned and bare soil and animals fed fresh vegetation are resplendent vitality in this particular light if the beginning of the rainy season ...
Too bad that tourists do not enjoy these charms!
The first storms have felled a large tree on the terrace, fortunately not too much damage, but his shadow we will be missing next year!

I take this half to bring the rest of the anti-poaching efforts by taking advantage of the enthusiasm of the guards after the allocation of EU. It will certainly be fleeting, as much going. I gave them a built in cable crossing over the mayo facing the camp, so there is more than pretexts for refusing to go watch the northern part of the park, cruelly threatened during the rainy season.

Our major concern, more and more glaring every year, is the invasion of Fulani nomads with their herds of cattle huge invasion that nothing is able to contain and which is accompanied by many losses: poaching, competition for water and grazing, tree trimming, animal diseases ... In addition, cattle rustlers, poachers of ivory bandits are based in these nomadic tribes who play and ignoring frontiers and where they find support and information to commit their misdeeds ... The phenomenon is well known in the CAR and Chad, for example, and if nothing is done it will be too late to react.

A survey in late May revealed the presence of several thousand cattle in the northern third of the park, and our modest attempt to discharge resulted in a volley of poisoned arrows from these nomads particularly belligerent, which led us to retreat ... The ULM was the reason for unparalleled efficiency ... I think more and harder to find a solution to put this great tool out ... If anyone has any ideas and means, that he does not hesitate!
Fortunately, this annual phenomenon occurs against the season of the tourist season, the nomads seeking first the green pasture that we are worth of rain earlier here than in neighboring Chad. They return home as the revegetation of land further north.
For now we strive to maintain pressure to dissuade them from penetrating further south ...

Soon also some well-deserved vacation not to mention the preparations for the upcoming season!

So to all "Happy Holidays! "