European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The time honoured safari is still Best Way to get a look at animals of Africa from Camp Sites such As above in Kenya one can move out and find frolicking Lions. Continued from Page 11 i Kilimanjaro is no place for the or the faint hearted. Fatigue Alti sickness Snow blindness and Mist awards that must be accepted by who embark on this adventure. Playground for thousands of Chat i pelicans and flamingos Lake Man presents an ornithological pageant and electric Beauty the Lodge High above the soda of the Lake it was built on the of the great rift Wall the pelicans iia Mingos take on an abstract a nce. Indistinct pools of Pink and. Iney Moid into a Stark landscape i Trees and Barren mountains. Lake Mayara Park elephants and Baboons and Impala Buff los and i this vast  Sij Are Niht a of Brown and1968 yellow Grassland roughly circular in so ape thousands of animals Graze in the  also known As the wildebeest and zebras roam together in huge herds. Antelopes slim nimble and shy quiver at every foreign  sight of rhinos pounding fitfully toward any object their myopic eyes happen to focus on sols off a scamper of fleeing  flocks of Birds suddenly Flap their wings and wheel above the Crater  a water Hole a Pride of Lions loaf in the noon Day Sun. Gorged with fresh meat possibly a Gnu or Zebra from a Dawn kill the Lions Are too contented to be bothered by humans gaping from a safari bus. Only when cameras Are turned in the direction of a cub now exposed from his hiding place do the adults take notice. An aged male groans stretches himself then rises to his feet and stares at the intruders. But his harem of six ladies is loss concerned. They slumber on under the spell of inc food and the  a far Corner of the orator a pack of jackals race in circles Birds in their Patch casually pump their wings and soar to safety in the direction of a Village of Masai tribesmen those indigenous natives who live in houses made of cow dung and thrive on a Diot that includes milk curdled in cow blood and urine. Once Savoured the sight of the Crater is difficult to sweep from the mind. But just West of it another scene begins As the Serengeti Plains stretch out to the West across the  of wild animals the size of which exist nowhere else in the world still roam this vast sea of grass. May and june is migration time with thou Sands and thousands of animals on the move. It s a stirring sight but it May not last much longer. Every year brings a now decimation. Even the stiff penalties imposed on poachers cannot prevent h eed 1 is Slaughter on this vast government re serve. There Are simply not enough rangers and game protectors to effectively patrol  years conservationists have been sounding the alarm against the Indis Criminate Slaughter of animals often indulged in for no More than sport. Of or the most eloquent pit As for preservation of those Groat herds As made by the Herman zoologist or. Born hard lir Timok in his Book soroa Goli shall not  years or Imok curator of the Frankfurt zoo and his son Michael collected data on the animals of East Afri Ca in an Effort to promote conservation. A prize winning film was produced As a by product of their , in the fall of 1939, Michael was killed when his Zebra striped plan struck a vulture and crashed. A memorial has been erected to his memory on the Crater rim. It reads Michael Gazimek 12-4-193410-1-1959. Lie Nave All lie possessed for the wild animals of Africa including his  Michael s death and his father s Book helped rally conservationists to the cause. But they Are a minority. And Many game protectors in Africa admit that despite All their efforts the sight of the goal herds roaring across the Plains is a vanishing phenomenon. In a foreword to Serengeti shall not die the author Alan Moor Hoad urges those interested in wild life to visit East Africa  year to year the threat of extermination hangs Over these wild animals and it is Ery unlikely that our children will Ever see them As we can see them now the \ ast procession of zebras Gazelles and wildebeest moving across the open Plains the Lions lying like cats in the Sun with hyenas an jackals circling nervously about them the vultures hovering in the immense sky and the Blue Hills in the distance Moorehead writes. The stars and stripes log 13