This week started saddeningly. One of our Super Cub pilots discovered the remains of Dida, the Queen of Tsavo. Dida was one of five iconic cows that we monitor here in the Tsavo Conservation Area. Iconic cow is the term…
The drought here in East Africa has been a frequent theme in these weekly bulletins. So frequent, in fact, that there are no doubt those amongst our readership that can no longer bare to read about it. It has been…
The African Wildlife Foundation create an annual conservation status report on certain monitored countries’ elephant populations. The reports measure and evaluate the conservation statuses of a country’s elephant population. They also report on the scope and successes of operations conducted…
The Mau Forest is a complex of 22 forest sectors comprising a contiguous 380,000 hectare spread of land that is vital to this country for a variety of reasons. It is the largest closed canopy forest block left in East…
As many of you are undoubtedly aware, this year has seen much of East Africa play host to one of the worst droughts seen in this part of the world for over 40 years. The Tsavo Conservation Area, home to…
Kenyan wildlife conservationists take three awards at the African Conservation Awards ceremony The Game Rangers Association of Africa held its annual African Conservation Awards on the 17th of September. The awards ceremony is a celebration of the men and women…
At nearly 50,000 km², the Tsavo ecosystem is the largest continuous savannah range in Kenya. That has made it an excellent home to nearly a third of the country’s African savannah elephant population. On their range, amongst these constantly migrating…
The human being responds viscerally to the sight of an elephant’s mutilated corpse. With it’s ivory untidily hacked away and it’s eyes dulled with lost awareness, an elephant hunted for its ivory elicits an obvious reaction from human beings. It…
In one of our previous articles, we had the pleasure of alerting some of our readers to the existence of the Nashulai Conservancy. Where Nashulai differs from some of the better known and more long-standing conservancy projects in Kenya, is…
World Elephant Day was celebrated on August 12th. The practice of giving over a day’s significance to a cause or event worth drawing attention to has become quite widespread. The modern world uses the earmarking of a day as a…