Rwanda’s capital city Kigali will be home to a 134 hectare urban park in the city’s biggest valley in 2020. The Nyandungu Urban Wetland Eco-Tourism Park will conserve wetlands and habitat for wildlife while providing walking and cycling trails, fish ponds and botanical gardens for residents and tourists. http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/12/rwanda-build-ecotourism-park-kigali/
Set adjacent to the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, Rafiki Safari Camp is the perfect base when exploring the wilderness of Malawi. Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve is something of a birding mecca and this newly revitalised game park is now stocked with some of Africas favourite large vertebrates, making your safari holiday complete. Rafiki Safari Camp boasts spacious…
Air Botswana has procured a new Embraer ERJ170, and has resumed direct Gaborone-Cape Town flights. The flights operate on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The airline suspended the flights in February, after the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) grounded CemAir flights due to CemAir’s alleged failure to submit credible proof of compliance to SACAA. Minister of Transport…
AirKenya and Safarilink both resumed operations into the Mara North Airstrip in the Maasai Mara, on December 8. The two airlines previously suspended services to and from the airstrip on October 30, due to its unserviceable condition. According to AirKenya, if passengers’ preference is to fly into/from Mara North Airstrip and they booked an alternative due…
Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar al-Baker, said: “The inaugural flight to the beautiful coastal city of Mombasa marks further growth and strengthening bonds between the State of Qatar and Kenya. We are thrilled to be the first Middle East airline to offer direct flights to Mombasa, our second gateway into Kenya. “The people of…
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest Aviation Group in Africa and SKYTRAX Certified Four Star Global Airline, inaugurated flights to Manchester, its second destination in the UK next to London, at a colourful ceremony graced by the presence of H.E. Mrs Susanna Moorehead, Ambassador of the UK to Ethiopia, Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Mr. Tewolde GebreMariam,…
For many years now, the fate of rhinos around the world has seemed uncertain. And while their extinction in the wild is still a very real prospect, EcoTraining thinks it’s high time to point out rhino conservation success stories that need to be celebrated. The Javan Rhino, native to Indonesia, is the most threatened of the five…