To conserve wildlife,you need better batteries

摘要

BEST readers who wrote to the Scribe during August would have got an auto reply e-mail from my e-mail system telling them I was "on Safari". I can't afford safaris. If only. The employee responsible for that erroneous message has been disciplined. Your Scribe was actually taking part in a conservation exercise in a not too remote part of South Africa, tracking a rather ugly beast known as a "painted dog". It's an ugly creature and there are only about 400 of them left. In the pecking order, its a scavenger, it comes below hyenas and slightly above vultures— about where your scribe sits in the great pecking order of business.