Fire in the park
by Robert Shepardson
(DeBary, Florida U.S.A.)
Fire moving away
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In September of this year (2011) we witnessed a significant portion of the bush in Etosha burn. The park employees set backfires to reduce the impact, but almost daily another portion of the park was burning. It was difficult to watch this taking place and saddened both my wife and me.
If there was a plus side, it was now soon after the fire that the animals were going into the areas that had burned, and how quickly (we had a little rain) the grass sent up new shoots.
Within days of the fire one could see game venturing into burned out areas. Following the prey animals were of course the predators.
The photo of the lion was taken in an area that had burned over about 3 days previous.
In a seperate post, I'll include a leopard lying in the road with the bush smoldering in the background.
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