Elephant doing fine..and general news….
Category: Milgis lugga, elephants | Date: Oct 13 2008 | By: milgistrust
Just to let you all know that the elephant that was dragged out of the waterhole [ Blog 6.10.08 ] has been seen twice since by Lesambaua..It is back with his herd and relaxed…
The news this morning is wonderful.. The whole region has had a good dowsing of rain… This is such a relief as the rain on the 5th October did not continue, and this is when we started seeing all these fires… The worst one was in the Ndoto Mountains… Over a hundred acres of bush and forest was burn’t… The biggest worry being that the fire followed up one of the luggas that houses the few De-Brazza monkeys that live in these steep mountains… Seems that the fire was started by a hunter gatherer extracting honey, and he probably left the fire burning… Our scouts are following up on this..
A Grevey Zebra, fell into a water hole in the Guasi Lugga, and sadly before the scouts were able to rescue it, a big flood came down, and it drowned…..There are two reports this morning of grevey Zebras limping, one in the Sulabei area, west of the Suiyan… Two Milgis scouts have gone with two Ambassadors from the Grevey Zebra Trust to see why.. The other in Chagwai… It is in a herd of seven, and is not letting any one near it… At least it can move fast!
News from the lower Milgis [Elgerei] is that four lesser Kudu have been found dead… This is the area that had good rains on the 4th October [ blog 5.10.08].. There has been a virus killing goats in the area, so sadly I think this is hitting the Kudu… What a shame as the beautiful lesser kudu has made an incredible come back in the last few years…
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One Response to “Elephant doing fine..and general news….”
Maina, on 13 Oct 2008
Thanks for this update. I am worried about the burning of De-Brazza’s Monkey territory. From you reports in past years in SWARA and those of Iregi Mwenja (http://samburumonkeys.wildlifedirect.org), it was indeed good news to report the existence of this population outside of western Kenya. When a fire burns in the habitat of such a locally rare monkey then we get worried. As of the kudu deaths please keep us informed as to whether they are due to the virus.
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