Author Archives: Niel Pienaar

Buffalo Thorn Newsletter – August 2025 – Where Summer Arrived Uninvited, Elephants Took Over the Pool, and Lions Continued Their Soap Opera

This month, Mother Nature decided to skip the pleasantries entirely. One day it was 10 degrees, the next it was 31. No gentle easing into spring, just a full slap in the face of summer. It’s hot, it’s dry, it’s windy — which of course means fire season has arrived. The park staff are running around like…