Dangers of mountain forest fires.. Klipspringer is caught out…
Category: Forest Fires, Ndoto Mountains | Date: Mar 13 2009 | By: milgistrust
Ndoto mountains… You can imagine the scenario… The peaks are around 8000 feet, and with in a very short distance, a few kilometres, the surrounding country is about 3000 feet, they are incredibly steep, very dramatic mountains, you can walk along the ridge from north to south, over the two main peaks, Allimission, and Upe, with a 360 degrees views all round…Its fabulous…But with a good wind you can imagine what happens if a fire [SO SAD that one match can do so much damage..] gets going on the slopes, in the thick brush… Its extremely dangerous, and this Klipspringer, was caught out with NO WHERE to run… The scouts presume there was two, as they are always two?, but this one walks carefully, and stiffly, and has been singed all over, but amazingly is still alive, more than two weeks after the fire!! We decided NOT to try to catch this animal as to take it off the mountain to treat would be impossible, also he had already got through the worst… incredible..
The Blue Mountains…Ndotos…
Whole side of the mountain is burnt
One fire killed all these ceders in a shot, just below Upe, the second highest peak of the Ndoto Mountains and this is only one slope that has suffered this fate… There are many others..
THE BIG QUESTION IS… HOW MANY MORE ANIMALS DON’T GET AWAY… We have a scout crossing the mountains tomorrow.. I hope he has news of our Klipspringer…
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I Helen Douglas-Dufresne, have been doing walking camel safaris for the last 20 years in the Mathews-Ndoto region having witnessed the destruction of the Milgis ecosystem by the local communities who were unaware of its implications, either we did something or not- so the Milgis trust was born!
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4 Responses to “Dangers of mountain forest fires.. Klipspringer is caught out…”
sheryl, washington dc, on 15 Mar 2009
Thousands of non-human animals die in wildfires. According to NPR, during Australia’s recent wildfires there were about 200 human deaths and an estimated one million non-human animal deaths. No one ever mentions the devastating toll on wildlife, which will likely not recover.
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paula, on 15 Mar 2009
Thanks for this post Helen, Nice to see photos - do you know who started the fire and why?
The Milgis Trust » Frenzy of fires wakes up the leaders of Matthews/Ndotos region…, on 03 Apr 2009
[…] fire on the southern flank of Upe peak, of the Ndotos… Re burning an area that had a desperate fire a few years ago and I showed you the results of in my recent blog on the klipspringer being caught […]
The Milgis Trust » Stellas bedroom!!!!, on 19 Apr 2009
[…] rocks of Laisamis, and Losai.. Turning to wards the north the full range of the powerful looking Ndotos, a majestically blue look to them, with the brown rolling hills of Latakwen, in the fore ground, […]
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