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Botswana

Let’s Start at the very Beginning

by Katherine Rigney, of Carleton College How do you begin to describe two weeks like the two weeks we’ve just had? I suppose as Julie Andrews once said, the beginning is the very best place to start. So we’ll try…

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The Fallacy of Human’s “Wilderness”

by Mariel Ferragamo, of Colby College Conversation on “wilderness” has predominantly connoted a place without conventional civilization, what remains are the exotic plants and animals so elusive and idealized to the everyday urbanite. Since as early as Hobbes’ “State of…

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More Than A Tourist

by Gretta Stack, of University of Vermont As we near the end of the semester, I am feeling a mixture of emotions. I can speak for all of us when I say we are so excited to be re-united with…

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Central Kalahari National Park

by Charlotte Brodie, of University of Vermont On the morning of March 27th, we packed up camp around 7am and headed off to the Central Kalahari National Park! The drive was roughly 3-hours, and looking out the window I could…

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Let’s get this bread!

by Ryan Doyle, of University of Vermont After being in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park area for one month, we have moved to the Okavango Delta.  Our first two-week stay was in Khwai, a place known for the wildlife, and…