Caitlin O'Connell's Blog, page 21
April 17, 2015
Great article in Africa Geographic about elephant conservation by Jane...
April 14, 2015
An image from the most recent stop on my book tour. Click the...
An image from the most recent stop on my book tour. Click the link for a review of Ivory Ghosts AND a recipe for “Chewy No-Bake Peanut Butter Muesli Bars!”
April 7, 2015
A Kick Ass New Thriller about the Ivory Trade!Its officially...
A Kick Ass New Thriller about the Ivory Trade!
Its officially out! Caitlin’s first novel, “Ivory Ghosts” goes on sale on Amazon today! This is the first in a series of novels centered on Catherine Sohon, a smart young woman wildlife trade investigator who finds herself smack bang in the middle of an international elephant poaching ring and has to put her own life at risk to stop them. Based on true events, Caitlin wrote this novel as a way to reach new audiences and get more people engaged in stopping the slaughter of elephant poaching.
We would love your support in getting the word out about this novel. Its only $2.99 on Amazon ebooks. A big thanks to Wildeles for her posting yesterday!
If you want to read more about the book, see reviews etc. see more at www.ivoryghosts.com
April 4, 2015
The Complicated Lives, and Social Roles, of ElephantsIf you...
The Complicated Lives, and Social Roles, of Elephants
If you listen to the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC radio and want to hear Caitlin talking about the bull eles of Mashara, be sure to tune in Monday, April 6th. http://www.wnyc.org/story/elephant-don-politics-pachyderm-posse/
April 3, 2015
Hungry HerdsWhile the giant herds of Zambezi are awesome to see,...
Hungry Herds
While the giant herds of Zambezi are awesome to see, in the 1990s they started to get compressed into small regions along the rivers by the Angolan rebels in the North, villagers in the East and bone dry savannah in the West. When you get that many elephants in a small region of riverine forest they start to eat everything, including a thousand+ year old baobab tree that that chewed through like an apple in about 2 years!
April 1, 2015
The Last Great Elephant HerdsZambezi is also one of the last...
The Last Great Elephant Herds
Zambezi is also one of the last places on earth where you can see huge herds of wild elephants roaming back and forth across several countries, beckoned by succulent green grass on the open plains in the summer, and the life giving water of the rivers during the bone dry winters.
March 31, 2015
Where Worlds CollideZambezi is truly a piece of old Africa where...
Where Worlds Collide
Zambezi is truly a piece of old Africa where the people and animals live side by side, with no fences or barriers between them. It’s not hard to understand how the relationship between animals and people quickly becomes adversarial. Rivers are full of deadly crocs and hippos, lions eat the cattle and eles munch on seasonal crops, chase people off the roads and occasionally kill…
March 30, 2015
The Zambezi MosaicThe thing that makes the Zambezi region of...
The Zambezi Mosaic
The thing that makes the Zambezi region of Namibia so interesting is that while it is only a small strip of land sticking out of the NE corner of Namibia, it is embedded in a vast wilderness stretching across 4 different countries with savannahs, riverine forests and swamps surrounding small scattered human settlements sprinkled across the landscape.
March 27, 2015
Midday RestAn Ele herd taking a break from the sun in Zambezi...
Midday Rest
An Ele herd taking a break from the sun in Zambezi (formerly Caprivi), Namibia. Zambezi, is a totally unique place in the world. A slice of “old” Africa where the wildlife roam free in herds sometimes as large as a thousand animals. It is a wild and exotic place where sublime beauty and harsh reality crash into each other regularly. More on this soon…
March 26, 2015
Places to go, People to meetThis is one of the newborns from...
Places to go, People to meet
This is one of the newborns from Mushara born sometime in 2013. Fresh out of a mud bath and movin on.
