About Author: Ralph Pina

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Ralph is one of ecoAfrica.com's founders.

Posts by Ralph Pina

  • Mumbo Island is one of the great places in Africa. Imagine a tropical island surrounded by warm, clear water and freshwater, tropical fish. The island is but a jumble of...

    Malawian island idyll

    Posted on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
    Mumbo Island is one of the great places in Africa. Imagine a tropical island surrounded by warm, clear water and freshwater, tropical fish. The island is but a jumble of...

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  • The IPCC‘s technical paper on Climate Change and Water (pdf), published in June, features some dire numbers for South Africa’s premier national park, the Kruger National Park. Should the global...

    Kruger and climate change

    Posted on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments
    The IPCC‘s technical paper on Climate Change and Water (pdf), published in June, features some dire numbers for South Africa’s premier national park, the Kruger National Park. Should the global...

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  • As a fine Euro 2008 tournament, at which technical and attacking football was vindicated, recedes into history, my thoughts turn to the World Cup to be played here on home...

    World Cup South Africa 2010

    Posted on July 24, 2008 | No Comments
    As a fine Euro 2008 tournament, at which technical and attacking football was vindicated, recedes into history, my thoughts turn to the World Cup to be played here on home...

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  • ecoAfrica has launched a Google Earth layer for the Kruger National Park (2MB .kmz file; requires Google Earth), in the context of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Our layer includes:...

    Kruger National Park Google Earth layer

    Posted on May 25, 2008 | 7 Comments
    ecoAfrica has launched a Google Earth layer for the Kruger National Park (2MB .kmz file; requires Google Earth), in the context of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Our layer includes:...

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  • The title of this post is also ecoAfrica‘s slogan, and one of the questions it immediately raises is: what sort of a difference? Another would be: what is “eco-travel”? These...

    Eco-travel in Africa makes a difference

    Posted on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment
    The title of this post is also ecoAfrica‘s slogan, and one of the questions it immediately raises is: what sort of a difference? Another would be: what is “eco-travel”? These...

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  • No doubt you have heard by now that South Africa has decided that culling will once again be an optional intervention in the management of elephant populations, albeit an intervention...

    Elephant options in Africa

    Posted on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment
    No doubt you have heard by now that South Africa has decided that culling will once again be an optional intervention in the management of elephant populations, albeit an intervention...

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  • Every once in a while I trawl through the research output of academia, specifically in the fields of ecotourism, sustainable tourism and ecotourism certification. The other day I came across...

    Is it only about “the Big 5″?

    Posted on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
    Every once in a while I trawl through the research output of academia, specifically in the fields of ecotourism, sustainable tourism and ecotourism certification. The other day I came across...

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  • Here’s an excellent post from my favourite blog about energy and the crisis that faces us, The Oil Drum: Understanding the current energy crisis in South Africa, in which the...

    Power down in South Africa continued…

    Posted on February 2, 2008 | No Comments
    Here’s an excellent post from my favourite blog about energy and the crisis that faces us, The Oil Drum: Understanding the current energy crisis in South Africa, in which the...

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  • The CEO of the Southern African Tourism Services Association (SATSA), Michael Tatalias, attracted the ire of both Eskom, South Africa’s power utility, and FIFA, world football’s governing body, when he...

    Powerdown and travel

    Posted on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
    The CEO of the Southern African Tourism Services Association (SATSA), Michael Tatalias, attracted the ire of both Eskom, South Africa’s power utility, and FIFA, world football’s governing body, when he...

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  • This post is only tangentially related to travel, but it has a lot to do with sustainability, so I thought I would vent here on this blog anyway. As I...

    Powerdown in South Africa

    Posted on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments
    This post is only tangentially related to travel, but it has a lot to do with sustainability, so I thought I would vent here on this blog anyway. As I...

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