http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:31:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi every one, sorry to have disappeared! Just back from a beautiful camel safari through the green hills of the Northern Frontier District!!... Its beautiful up there, we've had to cross flooded luggas, and slip and slide through mud, and best of all just watch the grass grow, and watching ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/11/19/is-this-recent-drought-a-turning-point-in-the-way-people-are-thinking/ When I first started bloging a year and a half ago, I asked this question..... does a striped hyena, make a noise like a camel in distress? but never got an answer!? Not much known about these beautiful/extraordinary animals? or maybe my blog is not reaching out to the right ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/23/yes-a-striped-hyena-does-make-a-noise-like-a-camel-in-distress/ With your support the Milgis Trust would love to own night camera traps to capture the nocturnal activities of the wildlife within the busy Milgis ecosystem. Each and every morning the Milgis team identifies countless tracks and spoors of highly timid creatures of the night such as the Lion, Aardvark, ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/21/capture-the-milgis-we-need-your-help/ Its an extraordinary phenomena.. the transition from drought to floods, soon after I wrote my last blog about the clouds disappearing into thin air!!, they were busy building up out there in the desert!, it poured again with rain in the Karisias, Matthews, and Ndoto Mountains, and every where between, ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/19/floods-glorious-floods-from-dust-to-mud/ Unbelievable!!... One day it was cloudy all over and raining , next day.. 11 October, not a cloud in the sky, for as far as the eye can see, but it is very very clear, which is a good sign, so we think that it will be back just after ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/14/the-rain-vanished-into-thin-air/ YES, IT POURED WITH RAIN YESTERDAY!!!!!...Every where within the Milgis Ecosystem..... Relief... RELief..... RELIEF!!!! All the Luggas have come down in full flood ... Every one has a smile on their face!... PHEW.. is all I can say, at this stage... The pressure that was building higher and higher is ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/10/every-samburu-and-elephant-has-a-smile-on-their-face-today/ I have been told several times by people who used to come to the Milgis Lugga, in the old days , that in their opinion the place is finished... meaning there is no hope for the place... The wild life has been shot out, the place is over grazed... Well ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/10/09/peacefull-and-patient-scenes-for-the-bbc/ Yes we have had the most wonderful crop of fruit along the luggas, the Salvadora Persica, against all odds is fruiting furiously.. Another of natures amazing rescue packets just when things looked really bad... As you walk through the Salvadora, the bird song is deafening, the baboons are all talking, ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/09/16/big-thank-you-to-all-not-sure-who-to-thank-for-the-fruit/ Milgis Trust Vet Unit, northern Kenya In a place as remote as the Ndoto Mountains and Matthews Range of northern Kenya where do the people turn when their animal is in trouble? Our conservation veterinary unit will not only offer desperately needed veterinary services to the livestock of the incredibly remote Samburu, ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/09/15/to-solve-some-of-the-major-problems-emerging-milgis-trust-unveils-our-new-vet-proposal/ Paula, thank you for putting my last blog on!... Weldone you!...You are right!.. After our disappointment of not getting the money, after weeks of work!, for a Rabies programme, and then the proposal was declined.! !..Because this dog is starving and thirsty, people tend to think it has rabies, so will ... http://milgistrust.wildlifedirect.org/2009/09/11/droughts-are-sent-to-test-our-durabilityand-sort-out-the-inbalances-are-they-not/