Cote D’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
Check out Ben Schweinhart's superb report from two trips to the Tai Forest: featuring 46 species over 5 weeks including White-bellied Pangolin, Pohle's Fruit Bat, Water Chevrotain,
Chad
I spent an adventure-filled three weeks in Chad in 2023. It is truly a spectacular place with some brilliant mammalwatching.
Kenya
Kenya, more than any other country, is responsible for my interest in mammals. Not that I had been there before 2011, but I did watch a lot of wildlife documentaries on TV in the 7
Bioko Island, January 2023
Bioko Island, a part of Equatorial Guinea, has been a bucket list trip since I read a trip report from Bob Berghaier in 2010.This was an African Eden, filled with exotic beasts and
Bioko Island
Bioko Island is not easy to get to, nor to travel around, but it still has some great mammalwatching including pretty much the only realistic chance of seeing wild Drills. I visite
Madagascar
Like all self-respecting mammal watchers I had long wanted to visit Madagascar. But something had held me back. I think this was largely the fact that my Madagascar trip would be
Uganda
I spent ten days here in July 2021 and loved the country and its mammals.
Gabon
I visited central Gabon for a spectacular two weeks in August 2018 focussed on Lope National Park, plus Tsam Tsam lodge and a couple of sites near Libreville.
Namibia
My first trip to Namibia was a family holiday, so I needed to try to fit mammal watching around two small children. I guess the trip was quite successful in that the kids enjoyed i
Sierra Leone
The mammal watching far exceeded expectations both in terms of the diversity of species we encountered but also the rarity of many of the species we found, with mega mammals like W