A distant whisper can be heard, 'Ubangi-Shari', a name that has not been uttered since the 1800's. This was the old name for the former French Equatorial African colony now known as the 'Central African Republic'. A land locked country, situated in the heart of equatorial Africa, the C.A.R. is broken into two ecological extremes, the rainforest in the south and the savannah woodland in the north.

The southern rainforest consists of an impenetrable blanket of undergrowth dwarfed by a one hundred foot high canopy. Knotted with streams and ancient game trails, this ecosystem embodies the essence of the expression 'deepest darkest Africa'. As this environment is encroached upon by modern civilization, the traditional cultures and the old ways of this hidden world are slowly vanishing. Tracking the red ghost with the Ba'aka pygmies of this dense rainforest is an experience like no other. Joining these gentle people on the hunt will leave you with an everlasting respect for their unrivalled skills as hunter gatherers.

By contrast in northern CAR, the landscape opens up into woodland savannah, the boundary land linking the Congo to the Great Sahara Desert to the north. Home to the nomadic Berber tribes, this harsh landscape of woodland scrub, contains unique wildlife such as Lord Derby's Eland that are as challenging to track as the terrain they live in.