The driver, unaware of the buffalo, continued driving. Everyone on the back was as silent as the night. Buffalo don’t seem to mind the Land Cruiser’s distant diesel engine rumbling, but any human voices will travel crisply through the early morning air and surely alert them. About 700 meters further, the tracker tapped on the […]

Pourquoi un guide sud-africain habitué à chasser en Afrique duSud, en Zambie et au Mozambique vient-il, trois mois par an au Burkina Faso? Cest ce que VDC a demandé à ce professionnel atypique qui depuis qu’ill a découvert la chasse en Afrique de l’ouest y revient tous les ans. une chose est certaine: il ne regrette pas […]

Guide de chasse Sud- Africain, Glaeser Conradie est maintenant bien implanté au Burkina Faso où il collabore depuis plusieurs années avec Frank Alain Kaboré, concessionnaire de l’une des plus grandes zones de chasse du Pays. L’essentiel de la clientèle de Glaeser est anglophone. Pour ma part, chasseur et ami de longue date du PH, je […]

Professional Hunter and Hunting Outfitter, Glaeser Conradie, a member of PHASA, SCI and ACP (Confirme), is a qualified and licensed dangerous game hunter and experienced field guide since January 2001. During the past 15 years, he has guided numerous hunters from all around the world on different hunting concessions in Southern, Eastern, Western and Central […]

To track a little known African antelope, in one of the most arid zones of the Black Continent; that’s what had been assured by our guide at the hunt’s beginning. He kept his promise. By Philippe Jaeger

You may not know it, but Burkina Faso offers some of the biggest lions in Africa. Although their manes are not as impressive as their cousins’ in East Africa, they have bigger bodies and a reputation for aggressiveness. Adding to the danger of this hunt is the method allowed: You have to track down your […]

There I was, a youngster trying to gain practical experience on game management and client relations, in the middle of Zambia’s Luangwe Valley, asking myself, what am I doing here? This sounds like the opening line of a Mickey Spilane dime novel and all that was missing was the dame and the smoke-filled room. But […]

This hunt was a dream come true, not only for my clients, but also for me. As a former field guide in the Luambe National Park in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia, this last frontier of Africa immediately came to mind when John McLaurin and Patrick Henry mentioned to me in 2006 that they would like […]