  Did you know?  Wildlife immobilisation drugs were first used
in South Africa to capture white rhinos in the 1960s.  It’s late
afternoon and the stage is set. Suddenly, the outraged squeals
of a warthog rend the bushveld air.  Enter a quartet of lions
who stride up as if summoned by a dinner bell in a boarding
school. Their ears are pricked forward, their eyes are alight
and focused, and their noses lifted to pick up the scent of a
surprise evening snack.  The audience, a dozen foreign
businessmen on a bush break, sit in their vehicles, cameras
poised. The wildlife veterinarian with the dart gun waits for
the right moment.  Everyone is here for a wildlife conservation
safari.  Visitors on wildlife conservation safaris are funding
essential work (blood tests, for example, or the removal of a
radio collar, insertion of transmitters into rhino horns, or a
dozen other tasks that are costly but necessary for conservation
work).  In return, they are privy to a look behind the scenes.
Wildlife conservation safaris