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Beverly Joubert

Doves, lions, and elephants compete for space at a watering hole during the dry season in Chobe National Park, Botswana. Normally, elephants would avoid such proximity to lions, but as the March 2000 story stated, "water is more vital than caution."

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“In the 80s we would speak out about losing some beautiful male lions and nobody seemed to care.” The Jouberts in the 1990s.

“My biggest fear is that things go back to where they were.” Dereck Joubert on location.

A lioness charges through water toward her prey in Botswana's Okavango Delta. In the wild, lions need to eat between 10 and 15 pounds of meat every day.

A lioness retreats from her attack on a Cape buffalo after the rest of the herd comes to its aid in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

A mother leopard and daughter survey their surroundings in Botswana's Okavango Delta. The daughter, right, is six months old and gaining confidence, but still touches tails with her mother for reassurance.

A leopard, known by researchers as Legadema, stalks her prey along a tree limb in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Legadema's mother drove her from the territory at a young age, after Legadema refused to share a kill.

The African buffalo is the most populous herbivore in Africa. Above, an animal is seen in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

This year it became much more difficult for African countries with wild elephants to send them to zoos outside the continent.