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Safari In Ruaha Tanzania June 2014 (Ruaha Revisited Part 1)

This Safari was filmed in late June 2014 in Ruaha National Park in Tanzania. It was around six weeks after the last of the rains. The weather was pleasantly warm in the high twenties centigrade during the day, but overnight temperatures could dip to around 7 or 8 degrees centigrade which made it cold for early morning starts until the sun warmed everything up. Vegetation was still very green in many places, although the grass was turning yellow. The Combretums on the rigdgelines were losing their leaves in preparation for the long dry season and the autumn type colours were sensational. The river was exceptionally beautiful with water from bank to bank and flowing quite strongly. There were a lot of elephants crossing into the park all along it. It was good to see so many elephants although some families were clearly distressed; most likely as a result of the large scale poaching that has been going on in the Rungwa game reserve adjacent to the Park proper. It is thought that the elephant population dropped from 20000 to just 8200 in one year (2014). Asecond census was undertaken in November 2015 and the results looked slightly better with a number of around 15000. However when the statistical uncertainties were appled the figure could be as low as 11000 or as high as 20000. Either way the numbers are trending steadliy downwards from the highs of 35000 in 2007. More recently the Government has finally begun to take action against the industrial scale poaching in Tanzania and has started to show at least some commitment to try and put a halt to it. At the moment (November 2015) it seems to have stabilised in Selous but it is still too early to get a clear picture of what is happening in Ruaha-Rungwa. Look at my website at http://www.nature-explored for more videos and great photos and information about other parks in Tanzania and Kenya.