When to go

I myself have traveled through a whole list of national parks and national/private reserves in Southern and Eastern Africa on the hunt for the perfect photograph.
On this site, I introduce locations, which I consider the most attractive from my point of view. I am not interested in what is generally said, but in what I personally saw and also what my contacts in Africa, who know my demands very well, have recommended to me. I am not evaluating the quality of accommodation or the accessibility, but rather the amount of wildlife including the locally specific species, the standard of the local authority organization, who take care of the park or reserve and the safety of tourists.
For the selected countries, I present the best of what they are able to offer in this area. For every park or reserve, I include, aside from a tourist point of view the best time for a visit, also locations, area information, descriptions of fauna and specific things which make the park or reserve unique.
In Africa, tourism is an extremely important source of income, which forces the local authorities to protect the nature whether they like it or not. They simply need the dollars. Income from the travel business helps even stabilize a country like Kenya, where at the start of 2008 turmoil did not turn into a full-blown civil war because many people from both sides were dependent on the relatively well working economy and nobody wanted to risk it.
Even local communities are realizing the advantageousness of protecting animals and the environment and are founding private reserves. This type of enterprise is often more lucrative than the herding of livestock, which is harmful to the landscape, the chopping down of forests, or relatively primitive and uneconomical agriculture.
I hope that many priceless types of animals getting a chance for life is on the horizon. Without them this planet would be once again poorer and grayer. A lot of them really don't have where to hide. They can only die out and free up the way for several years of agricultural use of the land, which will afterwards change into one big, unfertile, and arid ash-heap. The human ant-hill will advance a small step further, but where to go then? For how long and at what price?