While our manager travels up to the Ngeng valley its time to say thank you…also progress on another front…

While our manager travels up to the Ngeng valley its time to say thank you…also progress on another front…

Category: Cheetahs, Forest, Matthews range | Date: Dec 14 2008 | By: milgistrust

I am back in the Milgis… and firstly would like to thank you all of you…Especially to Karen P, Laurens H, and Anna M… So much thanks for the donations…greatly appreciated… We appreciate every penny, and also every one that gives us encouragement in words is invaluable… …

In the mean time Moses Lesoloyia has travelled back up to the Ngeng valley to try and meet up with ‘the now famous Luca’!! as we have heard that he is in the country… Moses will give us a report on his trip, but what I gather in a short conversation, that Luca was extremely apologetic on many issues, was very pleased to see our contingency of scouts, and has assured us that no more trees will be cut down.. This was our stance from the beginning…as “What has been done can not be undone.”.. In our opinion now that the trees are down/dead,/gone he may as well get on with his research…And hopefully give something BIG back to this area??…We will also be following up on various things like the plastic streamers, tags, in the forest… whether the research money will go to saving the Matthews forest or will disappear into the system, and any other issues that have come up through this saga…

Other sweet news to the Milgis Trust is a young cheetah was found lost and hungry at Rairariti, and what would have happened before … it would have been killed , but not this time… the old man has killed one of his goats to feed it, and he has asked us to come and collect it… Moses Lesoloyia, will leave early tomorrow morning to collect it.. Tomorrow we are going to take the radio, up to the new hill, and will slaughter a goat up there as there has been such politics about our radio moving there… Only because the new councillor thought there was big money for his pockets!! All is sorted out now, and our new found friend, the baby cheetah will start his new life on the radio hill!… Then we will have to think how best we can bring it up, so as not to let it get used to eating goats!!

Also in an other area a baby gerenuk was found, and it is doing well with two goat foster mothers… We are keeping a close eye on it but hopefully it can go back to his herd!, or it will think its a goat..

One Response to “While our manager travels up to the Ngeng valley its time to say thank you…also progress on another front…”

islandbiodiversityrace, on 08 Jan 2009

I am glad someone has contacted Luca directly and that he has had an opportunity to describe what he is doing. Perhaps this might have been a wiser option than raising a hue and cry with his university advisors, government officials, Obama Hq etc. As a biologist, I am certainly aware that many of the things we do in the field appear distructive and are easily misunderstood. But most bona fide researchers justify and obtain permission for what they propose to do, THEN do it. This is, as I understand it, exactly the case with Luca Borghesio.
It might be of interest to learn that Luca is able to get to and investigate isolated montane forests that were inaccessible to me, four decades ago. We have been in contact on the reptiles and amphibians he is observing; Luca is FINDING OUT WHAT’S THERE, and folks, you cannot conserve what you don’t know.

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