New ranking reveals the 10 best wildlife encounters worth travelling for

There’s a reason that a safari is at the top of many people’s travel bucket lists. Wildlife encounters – the truly wild ones, where you see animals in their natural habitat – can only be described as magical.While the Big Five dominate the conversation, it’s a wide, wild world out there, with everything from black rhinos in Namibia to the elusive snow leopard in the Himalayas. To help narrow down the search, travel company Bailey Robinson has created the Wildlife Experience Index which ranked 30 of the world’s most remarkable experiences.Each experience was evaluated across six factors, including rarity, based on population numbers and how difficult it is to encounter the animal in the wild; remoteness, or how far the experience is away from tourism infrastructure; conservation importance, which was informed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species; exclusivity, which looked at access restrictions and visitor limitations; accessibility, or…