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BBtv WORLD: Elephant-blogging in Benin with Xeni (Africa)

Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. Today: an ambient exploration of the creatures rustling around in a West African wildlife preserve at dawn. I traveled to Benin not long ago, and I shot this video on a small handheld digital camcorder. This episode of our daily show is a little experiment in trying to convey what this place feels like, first-person, without too many words. Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with downloadable video and instructions on how to subscribe to the daily BBtv video podcast. The Pendjari Biosphere lies in Benin's remote rural northwest, along the border of Burkina Faso. Despite poaching and environmental damage, it's still home to a diverse number of species -- elephants, lions, monkeys, cheetah, and around 300 species of birds. We traveled here during the dry season, when animal spotting is easiest. Here is what we saw at dawn (the time of day when critters all come out to the watering holes and rivers). Poaching is still a big problem in this area, and organized trophy hunting for foreign tourists is still legal and in demand here (mostly visitors from France; Benin is a former French colony and French is the official language). Lion hunts are a lucrative trade in this extremely poor region, where most people are subsistence farmers. But eco-tourism and less-invasive safari experiences are becoming more important to the local economy here, and offer a more sustainable future. Note: don't miss the epic baboon ball-grab at 0:35, and the mama elephant ripping tree branches off and getting ready to kill us around 1:50. We were too close to her kids, and we were having a hard time leaving quickly. Do not taunt happy-fun elephant. Related BBtv WORLD episode: BBtv World: Green tech and internet at the Songhai Center in Benin (Africa)...

THIS IS A SCAM!!!! (dublin / pleasanton / livermore) $1200

The postine for the house in dublin for 1200 a month is a scam. I have actually dealt with this smae person before and they didnt realize it was me again when they e mailed me. Please do NOT send anyone your moaney especially if they claim to be god fearing and living out of the country for missionary work. YES they will give you a phone number and the pictures they post on this site usually arnt the same house. They tend to always have the same price. 1200 so if it sounds great cuz they dont want a credit check and they just want you to "take care of thier home while they are away. dont do it! Here is a copy of they e mail they sent to me: Hello Dear, Thanks for the email. I own the house and also want you to know that it was due to my transfer to (West Africa, Nigeria) that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a responsible person and God fearing person who can take very good care of the house in my absence.we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean all the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own. So for now, I am here in West Africa and will be staying here for the next 3 years in our new house and also with the keys of the house for rent, we try to look for an agent that we can give this documents and the keys before we left but could not find, and we as well do not want our house to be used any how in our absence that is why we took it along with us. I and my wife came over to Africa for a missionary work, so i hope you will promise us that you will take very good care of the house. So get back to me if you know you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home. Hope you are okay with the price of $1200 per month and the security Deposit is $500.Get back to me for the rental application.You can go and view. Contact Number:+2348081369691 or 0112348081369691 Here is the address bellow: 6651 Maple Drive City: Dublin State: CA pets allowed Thanks and remain blessed