Following the Floods: Elephant of the Okavango Delta

By Anna Songhurst The Okavango Delta of northern Botswana is one of Africa’s most pristine wetlands, a living system shaped by distant rains and delayed floods. Its waters rise in the Angola highlands before flowing south to form a vast inland delta that sustains an extraordinary diversity of life. It is this rare hydrological rhythm […]

From the Village to the Table: The Hyperlocal Kitchen at Pongwe Beach Hotel

By Gabriel Le Roux On the northeast coast of Zanzibar, a short walk from the Indian Ocean, a kitchen is doing something quietly radical. At Pongwe Beach Hotel, Executive Chef Gabriel Le Roux has spent the past year building a supply network so close to the property that most of it could be reached on […]

The Life of Rain: Arrival and Absence

Building Resilience in Namunyak Conservancy By Alex Johnson Look out the window of a plane flying low over Northern Kenya and you’ll see land shaped by humans and wildlife, rainfall and drought. “Seventy percent [of the land] is highly degraded,” says Titus Letaapo, Director of Community for the foundation that manages the Namunyak Conservancy in […]