Saturday, October 25, 2014
The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve view of The Great Black Mountains
The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve view of The Great Black Mountains.
For Grant's international scientific meerkat publications links: (http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469)
The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS are Wildlife Films from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man a professionally qualified Nature Conservation Biologist and internationally published wildlife researcher and Director and owner of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project and The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve - involved with numerous meerkat / suricate films with the BBC; National Geographic; Discovery Channel and more since 1993 and ongoing (over 20 years of fieldwork with two subspecies of the 3 recognised). Bringing you the REAL wildlife film - no post editing or pre-determined scripting or set ups when filming wildlife here - an unedited wildlife documentary behind the scenes and science. No tame, or fed, captured, marked, radio collared, handled animals here - only Wild and Free reserve protected species.
Adopt a Wild meerkat and help support conservation - signed supporter certificate, meerkat poster and meerkat conservation information delivered globally from Britain: http://www.giftrepublic.com/Product.aspx?ProdID=MEERKATADOPTIT
Meerkat Magic Moments insect vision...
Imagine the meerkat world through the eyes of an insect food item...
For Grant's international scientific meerkat publications links: (http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469)
The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS are Wildlife Films from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man a professionally qualified Nature Conservation Biologist and internationally published wildlife researcher and Director and owner of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project and The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve - involved with numerous meerkat / suricate films with the BBC; National Geographic; Discovery Channel and more since 1993 and ongoing (over 20 years of fieldwork with two subspecies of the 3 recognised). Bringing you the REAL wildlife film - no post editing or pre-determined scripting or set ups when filming wildlife here - an unedited wildlife documentary behind the scenes and science. No tame, or fed, captured, marked, radio collared, handled animals here - only Wild and Free reserve protected species.
Adopt a Wild meerkat and help support conservation - signed supporter certificate, meerkat poster and meerkat conservation information delivered globally from Britain: http://www.giftrepublic.com/Product.aspx?ProdID=MEERKATADOPTIT
Your anonymous vote can help spread an awareness about the meerkat / suricate pet trade and aid Conservation Through Education – please vote here: http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=5
The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve Riverine Ecosystem 14 October 2014
Exploring The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve Riverine Ecosystem 14 October 2014 of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project.
For Grant's international scientific meerkat publications links: (http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469)
The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS are Wildlife Films from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man a professionally qualified Nature Conservation Biologist and internationally published wildlife researcher and Director and owner of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project and The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve - involved with numerous meerkat / suricate films with the BBC; National Geographic; Discovery Channel and more since 1993 and ongoing (over 20 years of fieldwork with two subspecies of the 3 recognised). Bringing you the REAL wildlife film - no post editing or pre-determined scripting or set ups when filming wildlife here - an unedited wildlife documentary behind the scenes and science. No tame, or fed, captured, marked, radio collared, handled animals here - only Wild and Free reserve protected species.
Adopt a Wild meerkat and help support conservation - signed supporter certificate, meerkat poster and meerkat conservation information delivered globally from Britain: http://www.giftrepublic.com/Product.aspx?ProdID=MEERKATADOPTIT
Meet the secretive bark spider that inspired my poem Invisible Threads
Conservation Through Education / Natuurbewaaring Deur Opleiding. Meet the secretive bark spider that inspired my poem Invisible Threads included in this note below.
It was a magnificent sunset and I sat entranced, and the slighest movement caught my glance, upon a single thread a miraculous web formed before my eyes from a predatory spider few have spied.
INVISIBLE THREADS:
ALONE AT FIRST…
PATIENT
DAYLIGHT FADES
CLOAKED IN INKY VEIL
A SUDDEN BURST
DRIVEN ONWARDS BY
AN INSATIABLE THIRST
SWIFTLY BEGUN
INNATELY SPUN
SPIRALS WITH WHICH
NO CRAFT CAN COMPARE
WOVEN AS IF FROM AIR
TIGHTLY BOUND
WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST SOUND
RUSHING RELENTLESSLY
RESOLUTELY
ROUND AND ROUND
A SINGLE PAUSE
BEFORE ADDING
THE FINAL STRAND
HIDDEN YOU REMAIN
WITH THREADS
YOU ARE SUSTAINED
ARACHNIDS ETERNAL GAME
DARKNESS LURKS
NO TIME TO SHIRK
A BANQUET AWAITS
WITH NO SET DATE
AS IF TIME ITSELF
STANDS STILL
MESMERISED
TRAPPED BY
YOUR WOVEN PULL
SHIMMERING
GLEAMING
INVISIBILITY UNSEEMING
YET MOONLIGHT BEAMING
THE ONLY TRACE
ACCROSS YOUR
DREAMLIKE PLACE
ALONE AT FIRST…
UNQUENCHABLE THIRST
BEYOND YOUR
MULTI EYED SIGHT
CRYSTALS FLARE
DEEP AND BRIGHT
BEYOND YOUR REACH
AN INKY NET
MOCKS YOUR IMMITATION
WHICH COULD NEVER
BE AS VAST
AS THE ONE ENCOMPASSED
WITHIN THE COSMIC GRASP
ALONG PRECISCION
NEAR INVISIBLE TRIP WIRES
OF PREDETERMINED FATE
YOU PRECARIOUSLY AWAIT
SOON THEY WILL ARRIVE
UPON THEM
WHOM YOU SHALL PREDATE
DAWN HAS COME
DIAMONDS DANGLE DANCINGLY
DELIRIOUSLY
IN YOUR UNHAPPY NET
DRIP DRIPPING
TO THIRSTY EARTH
AND YET
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
ANYMORE...
A DEAFENING THREAD
THRASHING
TEARING
TANGLED ROAR
SHINY WINGBEATS
TORMENTED
STRANGLE IN
YOUR MASTERPEICE
THEY NOW DANGLE
AWAITING YOU
HOST OF THIS
ONE WAY HOTEL
ALL ARE WELCOME
BUT NONE
BID YOU FAREWELL
A JUICY FEAST
QUENCHES THIS
MIRACULOUS BEAST
FOR NOW
IT IS TIME TO DINE
ON YOUR OWN SILKY FARE
ANOTHER NIGHT
TO AWAIT
FOR THOSE UNAWARE
YOU ARE ALONE...
AT FIRST
YOU BEGIN YOUR WELL
PRACTICED VERSE
NIGHT HAS RETURNED
YET AGAIN
YOUR APPETITE BURNS
WITHOUT END…
For Grant's international scientific meerkat publications links: (http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469)
The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS are Wildlife Films from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man a professionally qualified Nature Conservation Biologist and internationally published wildlife researcher and Director and owner of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project and The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve - involved with numerous meerkat / suricate films with the BBC; National Geographic; Discovery Channel and more since 1993 and ongoing (over 20 years of fieldwork with two subspecies of the 3 recognised). Bringing you the REAL wildlife film - no post editing or pre-determined scripting or set ups when filming wildlife here - an unedited wildlife documentary behind the scenes and science. No tame, or fed, captured, marked, radio collared, handled animals here - only Wild and Free reserve protected species.
Adopt a Wild meerkat and help support conservation - signed supporter certificate, meerkat poster and meerkat conservation information delivered globally from Britain: http://www.giftrepublic.com/Product.aspx?ProdID=MEERKATADOPTIT
Interview with a hunting spider at night
Conservation Through Education / Natuurbewaaring Deur Opleiding. I interview a large arachnid at night...
For Grant's international
scientific meerkat publications links: (http://www.meerkatmagic.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469)
The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project's MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS are Wildlife Films from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man a professionally qualified Nature Conservation Biologist and internationally published wildlife researcher and Director and owner of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project and The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve - involved with numerous meerkat / suricate films with the BBC; National Geographic; Discovery Channel and more since 1993 and ongoing (over 20 years of fieldwork with two subspecies of the 3 recognised). Bringing you the REAL wildlife film - no post editing or pre-determined scripting or set ups when filming wildlife here - an unedited wildlife documentary behind the scenes and science. No tame, or fed, captured, marked, radio collared, handled animals here - only Wild and Free reserve protected species.
Adopt a Wild meerkat and help support conservation - signed supporter certificate, meerkat poster and meerkat conservation information delivered globally from Britain: http://www.giftrepublic.com/Product.aspx?ProdID=MEERKATADOPTIT
Monday, September 1, 2014
Ngululu the Wild and Free porcupine from The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve
Ngululu the Wild and Free porcupine from The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project ( http://www,meerkatmagic.com ) - a very shy and secretive nocturnal resident of the reserve that I filmed at 1 am. South African porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis).
As a professional wildlife research biologist and Nature Conservationist I (Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man) often stare in complete wonder at the natural world around me, and often feel inspired to try and capture the essence of what I experience, by painting it in words.
Countless times over the decades I have upset certain audiences with my eco- journalism and conservation inspired poems and passion for nature - I hope these poems reach a positive and receptive audience as nature conservation, although my profession should be a concern of every citizen of this incredible planet we all call home.
This poem is called: Pied Delight by Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A - The Meerkat Man - A Conservation Through Education awareness poem about the plight of the porcupine...
In the moonlight
Glistening bright
Snorting, snuffling
Through the black velvet light
Your pied cloak of bristles rattle
You stamp your feet
Gnawing, chewing, natures feast
Roots, bulbs you search for and eat
Who mocks your defensive beauty now?
They wear what is not theirs by right!
Your ancestors have walked on this silent path
Generations past
Who now arrives to plunder your Ancient splendour?
Your own defensive measures
Now become human pleasures
Trinkets, necklaces, oh so grand they feel
Around their necks, and hands, lamp stands
Can they not feel, your pain…
As your lifeblood is drained?
To fuel their desires,
To quench your rodent life fire…
But what is the true cost of this pied ivory treasure?
When seen in nature
It has value beyond measure
A living, protected treasure
Humans rage about you chewing on water pipes
Yes, you sometimes dig these out,
Gnawing on them it is true
If only they raised these pipes up,
Along a fence…
You could not chew on these,
If beyond your reach
No longer would you damage what they put there
Nature and humans
Living together in harmony,
And understanding…
Then perhaps they would not kill you,
Then sell your defence, and lay a snare!
They could protect you,
Oh crater plough on legs
Breaking up that hardened soil,
So new life and water can become entrenched.,
Previously barren, dry soil can now become drenched
You are a pioneer farmer mammal of ancient wisdom
You live in balance with life around you…
But still humans mock your natural wealth
They do not use stealth
They rip and tear
They have no care
But to lay their snare
Destroy your ancient earthy home
When will this madness cease?
When will they begin to care?
It is too late when you lie in agony
In their unselective snare
Then they come,
To pull out,
Pluck you clean
What used to shimmer and gleam
A Pied Delight, your quills become
A perverse lust…
Now your quills lie in shops to be sold
Is it now your curse,
This once proud prickly cloak,
Gathering dust…
Now you are hunted day and night
Do none care about your plight?
Who will be your voice?
Who will be your champion?
You should have a choice
To live in peace
To be left alone, in nature’s home
Humans mock your beauty when they support a demand
That can’t be sustained
The porcupine population,
Is being needlessly drained
Until none shall remain
Who will champion your plight,
Precious, harmless forager of the night?
Nature needs you to dig, and plough
To distribute new seeds as only you know how…
To maintain the balance
To live free of fright
Fifteen years or more you may live
Following ancient footprints
We wish to experience your delight
Understanding that you are a priceless treasure
When alive and free
Nowhere are you farmed or bred for your quills
Simply killed to pay the bills
We hope that those who read these verses understand
So many have no voice who live off the land
Without your support of their plight
Without you saying no
They have only one place left to go…
Extinction is forever, darker then night
When you support unsustainable products
You end up killing the very source of the beauty
That once roamed alive and free…
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Meerkat Magic Moments : Wild and Free meerkat / suricate Shongololo Ungu...
Did you ever get bothered by a fly that just won't leave you alone?! Watch this meerkat and fly dance...
A meerkat / suricate gives a response to a persistent fly buzzing around their head! Watch Shongololo from the Wild and Free Ungulungu meerkat group of The Meerkat Magic Conservation Project in The Meerkat Magic Valley Reserve : www.meerkatmagic.com from Grant M. Mc Ilrath - A.K.A – The Meerkat Man
THE MEERKAT MAGIC CONSERVATION PROJECT - MEERKAT MAGIC MOMENTS - OUDTSHOORN WESTERN CAPE SOUTH AFRICA - EXPERIENCE WILD AND FREE MEERKAT MAGIC AND HELP PROTECT WILD AND FREE MEERKAT / MEERKATS / SURICATE / SURICATES IN THE MEERKAT MAGIC VALLEY RESERVE WITH GRANT M. MC ILRATH - A.K.A - THE MEERKAT MAN - A PROFESSIONAL CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST AND INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED WILDLIFE RESEARCHER / WILDLIFE PROTECTOR - INVOLVED WITH MEERKAT / SURICATE FILMS WITH THE BBC, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, DISCOVERY CHANNEL AND MANY MORE SINCE 1993 AND ONGOING!
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