Sometimes being remote has its challenges and in this last year we have lost alot of sleep because we’ve had a string of Elephants limping badly, or very poorly for various reasons, some gun shot wounds, but mainly a disease the Samburu call ‘Lokuchum’ and sadly most of the time we have not been able […]
Category Archives: fires
All animals people and plants are ‘dancing with joy’ up our way.. The rains finally came!! Its been tough times in Northern Kenya and every one has been holding their breath for some rain.. We have been so occupied with going on safari and enjoying the amazing final lmuget ceremonies for the warriors that not […]
Its true elephants never forget!.. They know there is a remote mountain further north that used to be part of their ‘home’ and they have been probing the desert north/east of the Ndotos to see if theres a way back to Kulal.. .. We are all excited about it!..As this is at the crux of […]
It should be the end of the dry season by now?? .. Its such a tough time for every living thing.. Here its HOT, DRY, VERY WINDY, DUSTY and nothing left for the animals to eat.. Water is hard to find.. The fires rage.. Its so tinder dry they catch so easily… So this cloud […]
This Young elephant had slipped into this well 36 hours before and it was just luck that somebody passed by and saw him.. If we had not been on the end of a radio he would have baked in the hot sun inside this horror hole.. With in 5 minutes of hearing about it on […]
Here we are again thanking people from outside Kenya for helping us save the future of this beautiful and extremely important eco-system!! For this totally extraordinary achievement we THANK our special friends and Milgis STARS Cecilie Malm-Brundtland (Milgis trustee) Annete Krosby (new Milgis Trustee), for days and days AND DAYS of tireless work to make […]
This was sadly the situation this March 2015 up in the Ndoto mountains.. The sight of the fires was just so terrible that of course I did not think of taking pictures.. this was the sight at night, every day another fire.. It is difficult to deal with fires as no one actually lives on […]
