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Bale Mountains: The Afro-Alpine Refuge of the Ethiopian Wolf
High above the Horn of Africa, the Bale Mountains shelter the world's rarest wild dog and a cast of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
The Simien Mountains: Ethiopia's Roof of Grass and Stone
Where afroalpine grassland meets sheer escarpment, the Simien Mountains hold some of Africa's most singular wildlife.
Gombe Stream: Where Jane Goodall Rewrote What We Know About Chimpanzees
Tanzania's smallest national park is a strip of forest on Lake Tanganyika where one researcher changed how science sees our closest relatives.
Mahale Mountains: Trekking Wild Chimpanzees on Lake Tanganyika
Where Tanzania's western mountains slide into Lake Tanganyika, one of Africa's greatest wild chimpanzee populations lives among the forest.
Read more →Ruaha National Park: Deep Inside Tanzania's Vast, Untamed Heart
Remote, enormous and studded with ancient baobabs, Ruaha National Park is where Tanzania keeps some of the largest lion prides in Africa.
Read more →Bandhavgarh: Inside India's Densest Tiger Country
Why a compact reserve in the Vindhya hills of Madhya Pradesh offers some of the best odds of seeing a wild tiger anywhere on Earth.
Read more →Sabi Sands: Inside Africa's Legendary Leopard Reserve
A deep dive into the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, the private reserve on Kruger's open border where habituated leopards have made generations of guides and photographers famous.
Read more →Virunga National Park: Africa's Oldest Park at the Edge of Everything
How Virunga survives as Africa's oldest protected area, balancing gorillas, lava lakes and one of the most dangerous conservation frontlines on earth.
Read more →Hwange National Park: Elephants, Painted Wolves and the Pumped Waterholes of Zimbabwe
Hwange is Zimbabwe's largest park, a Kalahari-edge wilderness sustained by pumped waterholes and famous for elephants and painted wolves.
Read more →Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park: Black-Maned Lions in the Land of Thirst
In the southern Kalahari, black-maned lions patrol dry riverbeds through a park that straddles two countries without a single fence between them.
Read more →Bwindi Impenetrable: Inside Uganda's Ancient Gorilla Forest
How a tangled, ice-age-old rainforest on the edge of the Albertine Rift became one of Africa's most important refuges for mountain gorillas.
Read more →Ranthambore Deep Dive: Tigers Among the Ruins of Rajasthan
Ranthambore is the rare place where a wild tiger can walk past medieval ruins in broad daylight — here is how the park works, and how to see it well.
Read more →Etosha Deep Dive: Namibia's Great White Place and Its Floodlit Waterholes
Etosha National Park is built around a shimmering salt pan and a chain of waterholes, some of them floodlit for unforgettable night viewing.
Read more →Chobe Deep Dive: Inside Botswana's Elephant Kingdom on the River
From riverfront boat safaris to the moody marshes of Savuti, this deep dive explores why Chobe National Park is the elephant capital of Africa.
Read more →Okavango Delta Deep Dive: Botswana's Miraculous Inland Sea
A deep look at the Okavango Delta — the river that never reaches the ocean, the flood that arrives in winter, and the silent glide of a mokoro.
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