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Thank you to everyone for helping us out – we gladly and gratefully accept your vote for “Blog of the Year 2012”!

Thanks again to Jenn of “The Serenity Space” for honouring us in this fashion, we really do appreciate it!

In turn we would like to nominate mjculverphotography as Blog of the Year 2012: Through a shared interest in and passion for the beauty and peace to be found in the great outdoors, our path has crossed with that of Marks and Joey – a real highlight of our year. We are regularly blown away by the beautiful images they create through their unique style of photography. We hope that you’ll accept this nomination as a small token of our appreciation, dear Joey and Marks!

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The rules for the award:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award.
2 Write a blog post and name/tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.
3 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them
4 You can now also join The Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience
5 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

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What a great way to end the year: Jenn, the fabulous author of “The Serenity Space” has kindly nominated de Wets Wild for an award!

We consider the nomination a very humbling honour – thank you again Jenn.

What’s more, Jenn’s given us a pick of three awards to choose from: the “Very Inspiring Blog Award“, “The Illuminating Blogger” or “Blog of the Year 2012“. This is where we’d appreciate our readers and followers to decide for us which of these, if any, you feel we most deserve – please?

(we’ll close the poll by the 10th of January 2013)

Thank you very much for your contribution – we appreciate every one of you who have taken an interest in our blog, your thoughtful comments and most especially the online friendships we’ve forged since launching de Wets Wild. We look forward to much more of the same in 2013 and wish you all only the very best for the new year ahead!

Golden Gate Sunset

South Africa is home to both species of African rhinoceros: the extremely aggressive black rhino and the much more placid white rhino. Encountering either species during our visits to our country’s wild places is always a thrilling experience and losing these beautiful beasts forever, due to human greed and superstition, is a thought too terrible to ponder.

As I post these images I cannot help but wonder whether the individual animals they depict are still alive and well?

The 22^nd of September 2012 is internationally celebrated as World Rhino Day. The message that rhinoceros horn holds no curative or aphrodisiac properties needs to be spread loud and clear so that the market for rhino horn can be wiped out, and it cannot happen soon enough. There are many people from all over the world and from all walks of life working tirelessly, and even putting their own lives in the firing line, to protect these magnificent creatures from savage poachers, but the onslaught from the organised crime syndicates continue unabated – so far this year we’ve lost at least 381 rhinoceros through poaching in South Africa alone (according to the official figures published in September 2012).