March 28th 2019
In February 2019, a group of Year 9 & 10 students visited Tanzania as part of the first ever Biology trip to venture into Africa. It proved to be an amazing experience as Mr Oscar Campbell recounts below:
We saw lots of animals during the course of three different safaris, visited Olduvai Gorge to learn why it is called 'the cradle of humanity' and met several of the diverse tribes that inhabit northern Tanzania, all of whom still practice their traditional way of life to varying degrees. We also worked with a local community to plant trees to reduce soil erosion into rivers and visited an orphanage. Particular highlights, to name just a few, included many elephants just feet away, a walking safari that got us to within 50m of Giraffes and even closer to a large group of Cape Buffaloes on foot (the latter being arguably the most dangerous animal in Africa!) and a morning spent with the Hadzabe, a tribe who still cling to their hunter-gatherer lifestyle despite great competition for their traditional land with pastoralists and cash crops. Students learnt a lot about land use issues and conflicts, environmental degradation, human evolution and natural history in some of the greatest landscapes on earth. The general consensus at the end was that seven days wasn't nearly long enough!
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