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ROAR AFRICA Partners With Emirates to Create a Carbon Neutral Life-Changing Safari
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Offered to only 10 lucky guests, the ROAR AFRICA Emirates Executive Private Jet Safari package debuts in August 2021, and will be offered again in August of 2022 and 2023. Priced at $125,000 per person, the truly exclusive 12-day safari plans to bring to life ROAR AFRICA’s mission statement of ‘rewilding souls and enhancing lives while saving wildlife and wild spaces’. The life-changing journey is an extraordinary ‘bucket list’ travel experience and is the first time that the premier airline has partnered with a travel specialist to curate an epic journey.
Botswana is evacuating black rhinos amid poaching threat
Lack of tourism during the pandemic is exacerbating an ongoing problem in Okavango Delta.
ByDina Fine Maron
Email
Battling ongoing flooding, government workers in northwestern Botswana are racing to evacuate the few remaining black rhinos in the vast, swampy Okavango Delta. The effort during recent days to find and move the rhinos which has been complicated by floodwaters that have engulfed area roads comes after a surge of rhino killings by poachers in March that left at least six animals dead.
Botswana officials consider the evacuation essential now because they’re increasingly concerned that poachers are emboldened by the absence of safari tourists in the Okavango during the coronavirus pandemic, says Dereck Joubert, who with his wife, Beverly, leads the Botswana nonprofit Rhinos Without Borders, an organization dedicated to relocating rhinos from poaching hot spots in South Africa to areas believed to be safer in Bot