Experience South Africa's wildlife

Experience South Africa's wildlife

JAKARTA: Three Indonesian students will be taking part in the
Cathay Pacific-sponsored Lapalala Wilderness Experience between
July 14 and July 23 in which they will attend a one-week
ecological course.

The program aims to expand the youths' horizons and raise
awareness of man's impact on the environment.

Ida Sylviana, the company's marketing communication executive,
told The Jakarta Post that the three students, two from Jakarta
and one from Tangerang, were selected from 100 applicants who
were required to submit a two-page essay in English with a topic
relevant to environmental issues as well as suggesting possible
solutions.

The Lapalala Wilderness area is a vast 26,400-hectare haven
for thousands of birds, animals, reptiles and species of wildlife
in the Waterberg mountains of the northern province of South
Africa. It is also the first private sanctuary in South Africa
for the black rhinoceros, a species so threatened that their
numbers in Africa have plunged from 65,000 to fewer than 2,500 in
the past 30 years. (14)