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Did you see a lot of buffalo? Any elephant? Congrats !

Congrats and thanks for posting!

Anybody hearing any reports?

A bunch!

Is that a 2021 bull?

Bunny Allen I believe. Quite the character and ladies man. Was involved in the setting up for some of the famous old African movies. Had 2 sons that also followed him into the safari business, David and Anton.

What is the status of elephant and buffalo in Chete?

Bird I guided for a young hunter.

Opening day Missouri bird

This insurgency is all about the LNG $$ and I seriously doubt it will spread beyond the area in question.

I wouldn’t go that far. Problem is in a relatively small area along the northeast coast. Niassa is the closest area and in my opinion the only area that Could be affected. Should be no problems there especially if you fly in via Lichinga.

Thank you and good luck!

Any trophy elephant bulls?

I would think that would work.

Fly in thru Lichinga and not Pemba and all good.

Loaded with elephant in 1970. 2 bulls on 21 day license in Selous and easy to get them.

Thanks Fulvio I did not imply that poaching has not been brought under control in Selous and I believe that it has probably going back to 2015. Nonetheless they need another 10 years with continued protection in my opinion but it is good to see them settling down and on the increase again

Night and day north vs south. In and around Serengeti elephants have increased in the past 20 years and have good age structure. Mike Fell has taken some really nice ones in Maswa in the past couple of years. You can say the same things for elephant numbers in and around Taringire NP. Now...

50 to 60 pounders are a wet dream right now in Selous.

Fulvio Can the Selous elephant population recover from yet another poaching epidemic? I’m thinking it will be atleast 10 years before elephant hunting is even mentioned again in Selous?

Luke Samaras has been witness to 2 elephant booms and 2 busts during his long career in the Selous.

In the 70’s there were 2 elephant on 21 day license and it was very easy to get them.

I’m sure ...it is a disgrace what happened... twice!!

Probably 20 years to get back to 60k

Yep that’s it. If you go back further the first poaching wave was say 85’ to 89’. During that poaching wave eles went from 110k to 35k. They did increase from 35k up to about 75k in 06’ or so then the 2nd wave dropped them to 15k. Long road to recovery..they have been fairly well protected...

Very nice. Glad you got some hunting in! What area in Tanzania?

You will need to wait 10 years for elephant hunting in the Selous to be viable again provided current protections remain in place in my opinion

How are they holding up in C9 with a year of no safaris?

Great report! When were you there?

Season ends November 30 I believe

How did your safari go?

Congrats on a great safari! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks John for including us in your great Zambian Safari!

Congrats ..have they taken any elephants this year with the shutdown?

Hope the rain holds off!!

Good luck on the big elephant. There are 70 pounders there from what I hear.

Congrats John. Is it possible Chifunda is better than it was 24 years ago?

I have a hint there may have been a big lion celebration last night.

Great trip! Did you see any elephant or lion? Congrats

Big Elephant

Yes, hunted buff and plains game in Zim in 89’. Hunted 3 different areas in 10 days.

Glad to hear about the good numbers of elephant and buffalo. There have been some good bull elephants taken in some of the Luangwa GMA’s this year.

I believe “Wild Managed“ applies to large SA properties that, although fenced, contain breeding, self sustaining, lion populations. 2 I am aware of are over 200k acres.

https://tsavotrust.org/download/2212/ Look at the last photo on page 8. That photo was taken in August 2020 and that breeding herd of 43 has no less than 11 calves.

Tsavo is back up to about 15,000 + elephants. Frankly the 35,000 back in the 70’s was too many. I would say 15,000 to 20,000 is about the right number in my opinion.

Nice one!