🦁 Lesson 19: Safari and Nature

Safari originally comes from a word meaning journey. Today it usually means traveling to see wild animals in their natural habitat, especially in Africa. A safari is not a zoo. The animals are living in real ecosystems.

Kenya and Tanzania are famous for the Serengeti, Maasai Mara, elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes, and the Great Migration. The Great Migration is when huge herds of wildebeest and zebra move across the grasslands searching for fresh food and water.

South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are major nature destinations. Botswana is famous for the Okavango Delta. Namibia has desert landscapes and wildlife. South Africa has Kruger National Park.

Nature travel is global. People go to Costa Rica for rainforests, the Galapagos for unique animals, Canada and Alaska for bears and wilderness, India for tigers, and Australia for animals found nowhere else.

Tourism can help protect animals when park fees, guides, lodges, and local jobs make wildlife valuable alive. But tourism can also harm nature if vehicles, crowds, and careless behavior disturb animals.

Grasslands, deserts, mountains, rainforests, rivers, reefs, and polar regions all create different habitats. To understand animals, you need to understand the land and climate they live in.