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Reporter’s Diary: How we covered the 2021 Maasai Mara wildlife migration

As the sun set on our news team’s final day of reporting on 2021’s annual wildlife migration in the beautiful Maasai Mara, we took...

Reporter’s Diary: Witnessing Kenya’s annual wildebeest migration

The annual wildebeest migration that grips East Africa’s savannas between June and August of each year is a natural phenomenon like few others. In...

Reporter’s Diary: How to track wild animals in Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Many visitors come to Kenya’s world-famous Maasai Mara National Reserve with ambitious goals of catching up-close views of the iconic animals that call the...

Reporter’s Diary: The road to Kenya’s Maasai Mara

Kenya’s Maasai Mara may be a vast and remote wilderness, packed with landscapes that seem as if they’re frozen in time, but modern road...

Reporter’s Diary: How to prepare for filming wildlife in Kenya’s Maasai...

Kenya’s Maasai Mara is one of the East African country’s most visited protected nature areas with thousands pouring into this vast landscape each year...

Reporter’s Diary: Meeting a nomadic Berber family in Morocco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMo_seyJUnE&feature=youtu.be   At around 7 pm as we arrived at our lodge, deep in rural Morocco, I heaved a huge sigh of relief. We had flown...

Reporter’s Diary: My encounter with the Samburu Tribe in East Africa

  In September of 2019, I embarked on a road journey with our video production crew to the north-central region of Kenya to meet and...

The birth of a desert locust swarm

Did you know that Desert Locust breed in moist sandy soil and in low temperatures and their eggs usually hatch in about four weeks. Scientists...

Locust swarm begins to take an economic toll

For farmers in Kenya’s upper eastern region, the rain that fell during November and December was a blessing. The rain allowed the farmers to begin...

Cyclists build culture of green transportation in traffic-choked Nairobi

Nairobi is a city accustomed to the rain. But even here, several days of back-to-back downpours can turn gutters into rivers and roadways into...