
spear covered in Elephants blood
Finding this broken spear covered in Elephants Blood sent a chill through every person present spine… Unfortunately I did not take the photo well, but you can see the ting of red right up the spear to where the man is holding it… It went in deep… thats what we do know.. But where was the owner of the spear, where was the wounded Elephant…
We were walking across the south east side of the Ndotos, on safari.. 25 January 2010… It had been a long day, we were all tired, and ready to get to camp, when suddenly I saw our leader pick up and hold this spear almost dripping with blood… It had only been a hour or so before that the Elephant had managed to get rid of the spear… They say… what happens when Elephants get hit.. first they run, if they are not mortally wounded of course, with the spear in them, usually breaking the shaft, so only the spear end is in the Elephant, until relative safety, where they will pull it out… This is where we caught up with the scene… We had been hearing unusually noisy Elephants, and we saw some heading rather fast over a ridge, but nothing prepared for this find!!
Reference to my blog written on the 10/12/09… We have walked many miles in the last couple of months, across the Matthews and Ndoto mountains and am happy to say its been beautiful, peaceful, and I hope you all have started 2010 as well as I have!!… I’m exhausted, but as fit as a fiddle now having walked day in day out since then!, hardly covered the same trail twice, almost through the entire area of the Milgis Trust, spent lots of time with all the scouts, and generally ALL IS WELL… Except for this new development…
What did we do???… We called for support from as may scouts as we could catch up with, who called in at KWS ( Kenya Wildlife Service), and picked up one ranger, and rushed to the scene… Our scouts knew that a spear is like a finger print, and the owner would be known very soon… Every one knows every one else’s spear!!… Incredible… by 4 am 38 hours later they found the culprit, red handed, as he had the other half of the spear with him!… At this stage we are not alot further down the road to find who is buying Ivory, as sadly we have lost another Elephant down in the lower Milgis to the same fate… But what I know is KWS have done a major awareness campaign, together with the scouts… Elephant poaching is NOT ON… They have combed the area for any sign of the wounded Elephant, with no luck… We can only hope that it is ok…
What we have felt from this experience is that we have full support from the communities throughout the area, which is incredible… Our scouts will continue to be extremely vigilant… And KWS are ready to support us at any time they are needed…























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