Friends of Nairobi National Park Field Trip Video
This little video illustrates the fun and craziness that we get up to – a visit to the Olerai Conservancy in the Nairobi Park wildebeest dispersal area, and installation of a biogas unit at a Masai homestead.
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To Join the exciting group of Friends of Nairobi National Park simply email us on fonnap1@gmail.com, or visit our offices at the Nairobi Park entrance, KWS HQ on Langata Rd , we are right next door to the Smart Card office.
Membership – 1,000 per person per annum, 2,000 per family, 10,000 for corporates.
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Rhino horn tablets on sale in Kenya
Ok please tell me this is a joke
How is this possible?
For those of you who need this medication … well I’m sorry about your condition – but why should Rhino’s have to pay for it with their lives
Don’t feel alone however, Elle McPhearson apparently has a problem and takes rhino horn powder
Witter: You’re said to be a great fan of Chinese medicine. What does powdered rhino horn taste like?
E MacP: A little bit like crushed bone and fungus in a capsule. Does the job though.
Witter: How do you know that it works? A lot of people say Chinese medicine is quackery.
E MacP: Put it this way, works for me.
Don’t get excited folks, she just took these pills for a headache (NOT THAT SORT OF HEADACHE – you guys are so filthy minded)
Thanks to @damiancook for that info.
Maasai song and video
No matter what anyone says, the Maasai are one of the main attractions to Kenya. Its not just their spectacular looks, their fierce ways and their big sky wilderness landscapes…the music penetrates the soul. Listen and tell me what you think
Lions and cheetah in Nairobi Park
Visiting Nairobi Park every day has never become droll, inf act things just get better and better
Here are some of my favourite animals seen this week – Big cats!
And there are still cheetahs around!
Who owns the cattle that are dying in Nairobi Park?
In a meeting this weekend with the warden of Nairobi National Park, Mr. Michael Wanjau of KWS and some other government officials as well as residents of the area, it was revealed that tens of thousands of cattle are grazing in the Nairobi National Park as a result of the ongoing devastating drought.
Mr Wanjau admitted that the numbers of cattle in the park has reached record levels. So weak from walking hundreds of kilometers in search of grazing, many do not make it.
Some herders are cutting the fence of the park to let cattle in. Some are being herded across rivers.
The southern part of Nairobi park is littered with cattle carcasses and vultures, hyenas and lions have eaten their fill.
Out on the staging grounds in Kitengela adjacent to the park where cattle are gathering, hundreds are dying and nobody is removing carcasses. The Kenya Meat Commission tried to buy up the herds for Ksh 8,000 per cow (about 100$) but herders have refused to sell, they say they are hoping for rain.
Some dead and dying cattle are being butchred on the roadsides which poses a horrific public health situation. The Ministry of Health is being informed as I write this blog post.
Many cows affected by foot and mouth disease simply cannot walk anymore like this calf. She lay down by one of the entrances to KWS and just died right there. It broke my heart that no one would touch her or put her out of her misery for fear of whatever disease she was suffering from.
The meeting on Saturday felt that the situation is a crisis and are demanding that the government conduct compulsoray purchase of cattle to avert a public health and environmental disaster. But it is being whispered that these cattle are owned by rich and powerful Kenyans, a challenge that few Kenyans are willing to take head on.
Daniel wants to be a pilot
Daniel is a Maasai boy aged 15 who lives on Mt Suswa. Like all boys his age his dream is to be a pilot. Listen to this podcast about his life in the wilderness – not much else is common to children his age the world over. He’s an extraordinary child with big dreams. I spoke to him and he had loads to say – listen to this podcast about Daniels plans to leave Maasailand and become a pilot
Daniel gave me a quick lesson in his language called Maa (spoken by the Maasai) and sends a powerful message to all children the world over.
The study of Zebra butts
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Losing Kenya to white elephants
The latest big shocker in Kenya-the-land-of-many-shocks is an atlas produced by UNEP that shows how much environmental damage we’ve done to our beloved nation. The atlas spotlights the challenges, deforestation, soil erosion, coastal degradation….it does not mention climate change and glacial melt. From these two images in the chapter on hotspots though, you can clearly see how screwed up Lake Nakuru’s watershed is
Lake Nakuru now
Lake Nakuru 1970's
sad sad sad…
Vision 2030 sounds like an oxymoron for a country with severe myopia…is it just another white elephant?
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