Insidus Blog: July 2021 On Wild Earth | Safari Guide Of The Year | A Pop Of Colour | An Elephant Party

Wild Earth is a 24/7 wildlife channel that brings viewers face to face with the thrill of Africa in real time through LIVE safari shows from five of the best wilderness locations across South Africa.

LIVE safari times
WildEarth CAT GMT CET EST
Sunrise Safari
Start: 6.30 am End: 9.30 am CAT
Start: 4.30am End: 7.30am GMT
Start: 6.30 am End: 9.30 am CET
Start: 12.30am End: 3.30am EST
Sunset Safari
Start: 2.30pm End: 6.30pm CAT
Start: 12.30pm End: 4.30pm GMT
Start: 2.30pm End: 6.30pm CET
Start: 8.30am End: 12.30pm EST

Safari Guide Of The Year
1 x 60”
1st July 2021 @ 6.30pm
Join us in celebrating a profession that drives the economy and flies the African flag.

A guide is critically important to a traveller’s experience when on a safari holiday in Africa. A personable and informed guide can make or break the experience for so many. However a field guides career is not perceived by the world as a “serious”career and is largely considered as a fun job with a short lifespan.
Not enough credit is given to the professionals that have constantly experienced life-changing ordeals in a dangerous environment.
This is no holiday job, it’s a profession that drives our economy and flies our beautiful country’s flag higher than most, and it’s time to give the guidesthat bring so much happiness to so many people and so much credibility to our country properrecognition.
Safari Guide of the Year is an annual event which creates awareness for these men and women who dedicate their lives to tourism and wildlife.This one hour show will be an insiders look into this prestigious event and the skills needed to be the best safari guide in the country.

A Pop Of Colour

July is the heart of winter here in Africa. The Wild Earth Safari Guides are wrapped up warm due to the freezing cold mornings and nights. The landscape has turned into a 'sea' of tawny coloured bush, with brown twigs and sticks as faras the eye can see.
However, there are a few pops of colour. The aloes will be in flower and with them the sunbirds and a few insects that thrive on the lifeline that the flowers bring. In July we are able to see the first long-tailed cassia and tree wisteria flowering toward the end of the month. These herald the knob thorn and weeping boer bean flowers and with them the onset of spring again.

An Elephant Party

July sees large gatherings of elephants in the riverbeds at Ngala. This incredible spectacle is a direct result of the fact that it is winter and thewater is sparse in the bush.
Kruger National Park used to be fenced off from other reserves that exist around it. Because of this the vegetation was protected and very well established due to the fact that the elephants could not roam freely between reserves.
Once the fences were removed the elephants were ableto move freely across a very large area. Every year as the dry season (winter) hits,the elephants move further west towards Ngala as it has available water.
Ngala has a river running through it and although the riverbeds are dry in winter there is still a high water table in the river bed. The lush vegetation provides a surplus of food during these dry months and it results in multiple herds gathering together.

Activity at the Hyena Den

The Pridelands Clan of Hyena have just started toden in the area where Wild Earth films. Robin is the matriarch of the Clan and she rules with aniron fist. It is very obvious when she is at the den that she is in charge. Many of the subordinate females fear her and are extremely submissive when she is around.
There are three cubs at the den and they range between seven and ten months old.. The eldest cub is a girl and her name is Ndzala. The youngest cub is also female, she is called Sparky and the middle cub is a male and he is Melo. These cubsall have different mothers but are best of friends and can often be seen playing at the den.

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