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Article: GETTING UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.(Life)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2009
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It's all about getting up|close. "Once you've touched and smelled the animals," says Nick Callichy, "I defy you to tell me that you haven't been changed in some way, that your soul hasn't been touched in return."
Once people have personal interactions with a lion, cheetah or leopard, even if it is asleep, it becomes far more than a vicarious thrill. "If we can increase the pool of people who feel personally, deeply, about wildlife," says Callichy, "we expand the number of people who feel a sense of ownership - and responsibility - towards preserving it."
This philosophy is being put into practice at the new Greater Mokolo Nature Reserve in the Waterberg ...