What better way to celebrate great Wine and meaningful wildlife Conservation… come to the yearly Wine and Wild Dog Weekends at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge to find out about the conservation of African Wild Dogs, Lycaon pictus, in the lowveld areas of Zimbabwe, with research team African Wildlife Conservation Fund, plus enjoy learning about world class Conservation Wines, created by Jeremy Borg of Painted Wolf Wines…
Last year, the event at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, raised a healthy check for the African Wildlife Conservation Fund, a small thank you for the ongoing educational and conservation outreach work they do in our rural communities surrounding wildlife areas…
Beach sundowners at Chilo are always a hit…here are some images from the 2018 event at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge
and never more so than with Painted Wolf Wines…
Happy wine and wild dog lovers…..
Limited edition Pictus wine, with Lin Barrie art label…. Jeremy and Emma Borg holding court on the beach of the Save River below Chilo Gorge…
Limited edition Painted Wolf wines..
Jeremy Borg, winemaker, conservationist, dog lover, lends his experienced nose ……
Reuben, chief wild dog scout, hunting for Painted Wolves aka Wild dogs, aka Painted Dogs!
the reason we do it all (apart from loving the wines?!) is these charismatic, wonderful African wild dogs… photograph of Gonarezhou dogs by Dr Rosemary Groom of the AWCF
Lin Barrie
The Save Valley Conservancy stretches along the upper reaches of the great Save River in the south east of Zimbabwe. The Gonarezhou National Park laps against the southern banks of the Save River and between these two nestles the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve. These three celebrated wildlife areas form part of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, (GLTFCA)- a unique wilderness jewel which is home to the “Big Five” (endangered Black and White rhinos, elephants, buffalo, lion, leopard) and the ”Little Six” (Klipspringer, Suni, Duiker, Steenbok, Sharpe's Grysbok and Oribi). Endangered African wild dogs, Cheetah, Brown hyena, Bat-eared foxes and a host of special birds and plants contribute to the immense variety of this ecosystem. Communities around the GLTFCA contribute to innovative partnerships with National Parks and the private sector, forming a sound base on which to manage social, economic and environmental issues.
This is home to artist and writer Lin Barrie and her life partner, conservationist Clive Stockil.
Expressing her hopes, fears and love for this special ecosystem with oil paints on canvas, Lin Barrie believes that the essence of a landscape, person or animal, can only truly be captured by direct observation.
Lin Barrie states: “Through my art, and my writing, I feel an intimate connection with the natural world, and from my extensive field sketches of wild animals, people and landscapes, I create larger works on canvas.
Lin's work is in various public and private collections in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Australia, England, Canada, Sweden and the United States of America. She is represented by galleries in South Africa, Zimbabwe, England, Kenya and Florida, USA.
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