The Badgers are back in Belgium!

So ya the badgers are back in Belgium and are already missing SA a lot, wtf is it with the shitty temperatures here and all the unfriendly people wandering around the streets.

But ok enough complaints, you guys probably wondered what we did during our last two weeks, right? We did community conservation work, this includes: reforestation with the Rastafarian's at the Kayalethu River Trail (a majestic Fynbos area!!!), workshops with local kids from the Township (Sinethemba Youth Development Centre and at the Percy Mdala high school) and coastal animal monitoring at Robberg Marine and Nature reserve.

The badgers have to say that those two weeks were awesome and it was so nice to work together with Eugene everyday and of course all the other people we came in contact with where nice. So being everyday in the trail for our fight against alien invasive vegetation with Eugene was fantastic such as all the workshops we did with all the kids. And the species count at the Robberg hike was just fabulous so pretty and such an awesome bird life around that area. (pics will follow soonish)Ya we are definitely gonna miss the times we spend around magical Judah Square where the biggest Rastafarian community of South Africa is situated, the Rastas are all so extremely friendly and nice also towards Belgian badgers :)

The badgers could write plenty more stuff but you know we are back in Belgium now so if you wanna know more and hear more stories about what we did just ask one of the badgers when they are not hiding in their badger hall. (we are not really the type of badgers who spend half their life inside of a badger hall asleep :) )

Oh ya and the badgers also succeeded in their mission to smuggle some Ganja aka Elephant dung to Belgium :)

To end this message the badgers wanted to thank everyone from Edge of Africa for making all of this possible (and keep up the good work!), everyone from the PHL who gave us the chance to do this as our in the field internship experience, our parents, friends and of course girlfriends.

Thanks everyone and the badgers definitely will find their way again to magical South Africa!

Two weeks Everything Elephant project

Ok it’s time for a decent update peeps I know some of you have been waiting for this for ages. So ya here it is THE UPDATE!!!! Two weeks without a good update it’s a lot we have to tell and sorry but we can’t tell it all, internet is not always our best friend here and we have also to take advantage from the fact that we are in magical SA.
The past two weeks we worked at a elephant sanctuary, the badgers did a lot of stuff over here. Our main duty was to take care of the orphan baby elephants and giving them their daily bottles of milk. The names of the two babies are Mashudu (the boy) and Thato (the girl) they get everyday 5 times milk and each of them get 4 liters of milk. This also has to be done at night but not for the badgers since badgers don’t work at night they just hunt for their braai meat. Other duties at the park where: cutting down alien invasive plants to feed the elephants with, cleaning the boma’s from all the elephants, helping the guides with tourists and also give tourists info about the ellies, cutting fresh fruits, data entry for the research, doing the elephant behavior research, thinking out new ideas, park maintenance, our own alien invasive project and feeding the Dassies (google them they are intresting!) 
Ok now we are just gonna write down all the names from the ellies:
The breeding herd:
Sally is the “Big Mama” of the Elephant Park, Thambile means soft-natured, Nandi means “a sweet thing”, Thandi means love, Tosha from the name Etosha National park where she is from, Keisha, Shungu means patience, Thato means ‘wheel’, Mashudu means Congratulations.
The bachelor herd:
Harry means ‘Protector of the home’, Namib is derived from the word, Namibia which is where he comes from, Shaka was named after the great Zulu warrior, Shaka Zulu.
Also we wanted to write a thanks to the Guides and the Boma guys at the Elephant Park it was wonderful to work togheter with all of u guys and we will never forget these two weeks. Thanks for all the interesting stuff u guys learned us about elephants and other stuff. And all the other staff members from the park off course.
So our two last week’s start from now on and we will work together in these two weeks with the Rastafarians at the Khayalethu River Cleanup Project, teach school kids at the Percy Madala high school and also with the Sinethemba kids (this is a day care centre for street kids) those kids are soccer stars.

Voor de nederlandstalige lezers diedeze blog volgen sorry dat het niet in het nederlands is maargebruik een vertaal programma en dit zou perfect moeten werken allesinds toch redelijk, dus denk eraan google kan soms je beste vriend zijn op het internet en maak er dan ook gebruik van. Alles is meer dan goed met de 2 belgische dassen hier en de twee weken countdown is ingegaan.

Addo Elephant Park!

So first of all the badgers did the highest bridge bungee jump in the world and yes it was a rush of adrenaline going through their blood.

Ok about Addo, we did lotts of game rides in Addo, spotted plenty animals and we did waterhole species counts. (This get used by South African National Parks) So what animals did the Badgers spot? --> warthogs :) , lotts of Elephants, meerkats, buffalo's, too many kudu's, mongoose's, blackback jakhals', Eland, lotts of birds(will write later the names down on the blog), ...
Addo was great and we learned a lott of new intresting things.