The Milgis Trust

Category: Uncategorized | Date: May 07 2008 | By: admin

What we have discovered in the last 3 days is that it is not very easy to blog from a satellite phone!! which is what I use up at the Milgis, so explaining my disapearance… I am also not so ‘au fait’ with the internet as I have lived most of my life in the bush… so please bear with me as I learn!! We got a radio call on the 4th may, with the news that the solar panels from the Milgis school have been stolen..How very disappointing, but we feel that the elders are hot on the trail of the perpetrators.. What the search lead to was even worse.. We got a message on monday evening that there was an Elephant struggling to get up in the Laana Nikan [lower Seiya]Lugga,..Our scouts were there at 6 the next morning to find it had died in the night, with no obvious signs of the reason. But on their way they found a part of a foot of another Elephant, so presumed there was another one dead somewhere… Finally after a few hours searching in very thick bush, they found another dead Elephant, that had died about 5 days before, seemingly it looks like the same reason..It is always worrying when you find two dead in such close proximity with no obvious signs. We immediately got in contact with the district warden to alert the station closest to this area to check this out…We hope to have some info soon.. THE GOOD NEWS.. is that we heard lion roaring on all three nights, from our ’star ceilinged’ beds!!, at Elkanto [ Milgis Base] … four years ago the lion would not have dared…..