Finally making road trips an adventure again!

That’s (a small part) of how wild populations get classified by the IUCN

I spent a month counting animals in a small African preserve. The way it worked was that each member of the team would walk in a given direction for a few hours and make a note of all the animals we’d see in a two hundred metres radius. Also we all had one ranger which came with a 1940s rifle and one bullet.

There were one or two countings per day. We saw lots of animals. I never saw any large predators, although I saw lion tracks a few times. Hippos were probably the most dangerous animals we regularly met, so the banks of lakes and rivers were avoided. The other animals ignored us or avoided us.